Is Sainsbury's Chicken Tikka & Roasted Sweet Potato ultra-processed?

Meals with chicken Sold in the United Kingdom

It's processed, but not ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Whole foods combined with:

Salt
Sugar

67 ingredients
No additives
Nutri-Score B

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Chicken 20% (Chicken Breast, Low Fat Yogurt (Cows' Milk), Coriander Leaf, Ginger, Garlic Purée, Cornflour, Green Chilli, Lemon Juice, Rapeseed Oil, Mint, Coriander, Cumin, Cinnamon, Ginger Powder, White Pepper, Paprika, Clove, Chilli, Nutmeg, Cardamom, Bay Leaf), Sweet Potato 17%, Potato, Onion, Beetroot, Carrot, Mung Beans, Coconut, Tomato Paste, Low Fat Yogurt (Cows' Milk), Coriander Leaf, Fat Cream 16% (Cows' Milk), Water, Ginger, Garlic Purée, Red Chilli, Rapeseed Oil, Ginger, Green Chilli, Garlic, Sugar (processing marker), Coriander, Cornflour, Salt (processing marker), Turmeric, Tamarind Paste, Desiccated Coconut, Cumin, Lemon Juice, Paprika, Fennel Seeds, Cumin Seeds, Black Mustard Seeds, Nigella, Chilli, Curry, Cinnamon, Clove, White Pepper, Bay Leaf, Ginger Powder, Nutmeg, Cardamom

As written on the pack

Cooked Marinated Chicken (20%) (Chicken Breast, Low Fat Yogurt (Cows' Milk), Coriander Leaf, Ginger Purée, Garlic Purée, Cornflour, Green Chilli Purée, Lemon Juice, Rapeseed Oil, Mint, Coriander, Cumin, Cinnamon, Ginger Powder, White Pepper, Paprika, Clove, Chilli Powder, Nutmeg, Cardamom, Bay Leaf), Sweet Potato (17%), Potato, Onion, Beetroot, Carrot, Mung Beans, Coconut Extract, Tomato Paste, Low Fat Yogurt (Cows' Milk), Coriander Leaf, 16% Fat Cream (Cows' Milk), Water, Ginger Purée, Garlic Purée, Red Chilli, Rapeseed Oil, Ginger, Green Chilli Purée, Garlic, Sugar, Coriander, Cornflour, Salt, Turmeric, Tamarind Paste, Desiccated Coconut, Cumin, Lemon Juice, Paprika, Fennel Seeds, Cumin Seeds, Black Mustard Seeds, Nigella Seeds, Chilli Powder, Curry Leaf, Cinnamon, Clove, White Pepper, Bay Leaf, Ginger Powder, Nutmeg, Cardamom.

What makes it processed

Culinary ingredients

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.
Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

Category rules

Open Food Facts puts every product in this category in at least this group.

Meals Products in the category "Meals" are at least group 3.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 213 meals with chicken

From least to most processed, this one ranks 35th. 79% of the meals with chicken 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 213 meals with chicken, least processed first

About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 00486187, last edited 1 June 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 B (from A, best, to E).
General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.