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Is Sainsbury's Chicken & Bacon Caesar ultra-processed?

1 Chicken wraps Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Sainsbury's Chicken & Bacon Caesar

Yes, it's ultra-processed

  1. 1 Unprocessed
  2. 2 Kitchen staple
  3. 3 Processed
  4. 4 Ultra-processed

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

  • 66 ingredients
  • 8 additives
  • Nutri-Score C

Less processed chicken wraps

Less processed isn't automatically healthier, so compare the labels for what matters to you, such as sugar or salt.

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Tortilla wrap (Fortified Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Water, Palm Oil, Rapeseed Oil, Raising Agents (Sodium Bicarbonate), Disodium Diphosphate, Sugar, Acidity Regulator (Malic Acid), Wheat Starch), Chicken 22% (Chicken Breast, Chicken Thigh, Cornflour, Salt), Caesar Mayonnaise 18% (Water, Rapeseed Oil, Parmigiano Reggiano Cheese (Cows' Milk), Garlic Purée, White Wine Vinegar, Pasteurised Free Range Egg Yolk, Concentrated Lemon Juice, Sugar, Red Wine Vinegar, Salt, Citrus Fibre, Cornflour, Anchovy (Engraulis anchoita, Engraulis encrasicolus), Thickener (Pectin), Chives, Parsley, Black Pepper, Mustard Seeds, Cheese Powder (Cows' Milk), Glucose Syrup, Sunflower Oil, Spirit Vinegar, Yeast Extract, Flavouring), Lettuce, Maple Cured Smoked Bacon 5% (Pork Belly, Maple Syrup, Sugar, Salt, Antioxidant (Sodium Ascorbate), Preservative (Sodium Nitrite)), Water, Italian Style Hard Cheese (Cows' Milk), Cornflour

Additives: E250 Sodium nitrite , E296 Malic acid , E301 Sodium ascorbate , E440 Pectins , E450 Diphosphates , E450i Disodium diphosphate , E500 Sodium carbonates , E500ii Sodium hydrogen carbonate

As written on the pack

Tortilla wrap (Fortified Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Water, Palm Oil, Rapeseed Oil, Raising Agents: Sodium Bicarbonate, Disodium Diphosphate; Sugar, Acidity Regulator: Malic Acid; Wheat Starch), Chicken (22%) (Chicken Breast, Chicken Thigh, Cornflour, Salt), Caesar Mayonnaise (18%) (Water, Rapeseed Oil, Parmigiano Reggiano Cheese (Unpasteurised Cows' Milk), Garlic Purée, White Wine Vinegar, Pasteurised Free Range Egg Yolk, Concentrated Lemon Juice, Sugar, Red Wine Vinegar, Salt, Citrus Fibre, Cornflour, Anchovy (Engraulis anchoita, Engraulis encrasicolus) (Fish), Thickener: Pectin; Chives, Parsley, Black Pepper, Mustard Seeds, Cheese Powder (Cows' Milk), Glucose Syrup, Sunflower Oil, Spirit Vinegar, Yeast Extract, Flavouring), Lettuce, Maple Cured Smoked Bacon (5%) (Pork Belly, Maple Syrup, Sugar, Salt, Antioxidant: Sodium Ascorbate; Preservative: Sodium Nitrite), Water, Italian Style Hard Cheese (Cows' Milk), Cornflour.

What makes it ultra-processed

Cosmetic additives

Added to change how the food looks, feels or tastes, not to keep it safe. A hallmark of ultra-processed food.

  • E440 Pectins Pectins are gelling agents extracted from citrus peel or apple pomace.
  • E450 Diphosphates Diphosphates are phosphate salts used as raising agents in baking powder, and to hold water in processed meats and cheese.
  • Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.
  • Thickener Thickeners, often gums or modified starches, make liquids more viscous so that a product feels richer than its ingredients alone would make it.

Substances rarely used in home kitchens

Refined or extracted in factories, such as syrups made from starch or isolated proteins. The other hallmark of ultra-processed food.

  • Glucose Glucose, usually listed as glucose syrup, is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
  • Glucose syrup Glucose syrup is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
  • Vegetable fiber Isolated plant fibres, such as inulin, oat fibre or bamboo fibre, are extracted industrially and added to change texture or support "source of fibre" claims.
10 ingredients that would only make it processed

Kitchen staples like sugar, salt and oil. On their own they make a food processed, not ultra-processed.

  • E250 Sodium nitrite Preservatives are substances which prolong the shelf-life of foods by protecting them against deterioration caused by micro-organisms and/or which protect against growth of pathogenic micro-organisms.
  • Maple syrup An ingredient mostly produced industrially and rarely used in home kitchens.
  • Preservative Preservatives slow spoilage by microbes.
  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
  • Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.
  • Sandwiches Products in the category "Sandwiches" are at least group 3.
  • Bread An ingredient mostly produced industrially and rarely used in home kitchens.
  • Cheese Cheese is milk preserved with salt, cultures and rennet.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 20 chicken wraps

From least to most processed, this one ranks 15th. 90% of the chicken wraps here are ultra-processed.

Ranked by NOVA group, then by the number of ultra-processing signs, additives and ingredients. Our ordering, not part of NOVA.

All 20 chicken wraps, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 00239042, last edited 28 April 2026), available under the Open Database License. If something is wrong or the recipe has changed, you can correct it there.
  • Photo: Open Food Facts contributors, CC BY-SA 3.0.
  • The NOVA group is an automated estimate from crowdsourced data: a missing or mistyped ingredient can change it.
  • NOVA measures processing, not nutrition. For nutrition, Open Food Facts gives this product a Nutri-Score of C (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.