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Is Specially Selectes Sourdough Breaded Wild Garlic Butter Kiev ultra-processed?

375 g Chicken kievs Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Specially Selectes Sourdough Breaded Wild Garlic Butter Kiev

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:

  • 42 ingredients
  • 3 additives
  • Nutri-Score D

Less processed chicken kievs

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

chicken breast fillet 72%, Rapeseed Oil, Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), salted jersey butter 4% (Cream, Salt), Salted Butter (Butter, Salt), wild garlic 1%, Garlic Purée, Durum Wheat Semolina, Parsley, Wheat Gluten, Rice Flour, Wheat Starch, Salt, Water, Concentrated Lemon Juice, Yeast, Wheat Flour, Garlic Powder, Onion Powder, Yeast Extract, Rye Flour, Black Pepper, Sugar, Cracked Black Pepper, Starter Culture, Malted Wheat Flour, Raising Agent (Ammonium Carbonates), Colour (Paprika Extract), Sage, Stabiliser (Xanthan Gum)

Additives: E160c Paprika extract , E415 Xanthan gum , E503 Ammonium carbonates

As written on the pack

CHICKEN BREAST FILLET (72%), Rapeseed Oil, Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), SALTED JERSEY BUTTER (4%) (Jersey Cream (Milk), Salt), Salted Butter (Butter (Milk), Salt), WILD GARLIC (1%), Garlic Purée, Durum Wheat Semolina, Parsley, Wheat Gluten, Rice Flour, Wheat Starch, Salt, Water, Concentrated Lemon Juice, Yeast, Wheat Flour, Garlic Powder, Onion Powder, Yeast Extract, Rye Flour, Black Pepper, Sugar, Cracked Black Pepper, Starter Culture, Malted Wheat Flour, Raising Agent: Ammonium Carbonates; Colour: Paprika Extract; Sage Extract, Stabiliser: Xanthan Gum.

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.
  • E415 Xanthan gum Xanthan gum is a thickener made by fermenting sugar with the bacterium Xanthomonas campestris.
  • Colour Colours are added to restore colour lost in processing or to make a product look more appealing.

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.

  • Butter Butter, the fat churned from cream.
  • 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.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 13 chicken kievs

From least to most processed, this one ranks 11th. 77% of the chicken kievs 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 13 chicken kievs, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 4088600333915, last edited 21 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 D (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.