Is Sainsbury's Chicken breast fillets ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- 34 ingredients
- 1 additive
- Nutri-Score A
Less processed chicken breasts
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British Chicken Mini Breast Fillets
Tesco
1 ingredient · no additives
NOVA group
1
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Chicken Breast Fillets
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1 ingredient · no additives
NOVA group
1
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British Chicken Breast Fillets
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1 ingredient · no additives
NOVA group
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British 2 Chicken Breast Fillets
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1 ingredient · no additives
NOVA group
1
Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
British Chicken Breast 65%, Breadcrumb (Fortified Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Yeast, Salt (processing marker)), Water, Rapeseed Oil, Fortified Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Wheat Starch (processing marker), Wheat Gluten (ultra-processing marker), Salt (processing marker), Natural Mineral Salt, Yeast Extract, Garlic Powder, Onion Powder, Sugar (processing marker), Sunflower Oil (processing marker), White Pepper, Black Pepper, Yeast, Colour (ultra-processing marker) (Paprika Extract (ultra-processing marker)), Sage, Flavouring (ultra-processing marker)
Additives: E160c Paprika extract
As written on the pack
British Chicken Breast (65%), Breadcrumb (Fortified Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Yeast, Salt), Water, Rapeseed Oil, Fortified Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Wheat Starch, Wheat Gluten, Salt, Natural Mineral Salt, Yeast Extract, Garlic Powder, Onion Powder, Sugar, Sunflower Oil, White Pepper, Black Pepper, Yeast, Colour: Paprika Extract; Sage Extract, Flavouring.
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.
- E160c Paprika extract Paprika extract is a red-orange colour extracted from paprika peppers.
- Colour Colours are added to restore colour lost in processing or to make a product look more appealing.
- Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.
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.
- Gluten Wheat gluten, sold as "vital wheat gluten", is the protein washed out of wheat flour.
4 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.
- 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.
Among 83 chicken breasts
From least to most processed, this one ranks 72nd. 65% of the chicken breasts here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 00302531, last edited 15 July 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 A (from A, best, to E).
- General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.