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Is Sunrise Farms Chicken Broccoli & Cheese ultra-processed?

8 x 142g , 1.13 kg Chickens Sold in Canada

Pack of Sunrise Farms Chicken Broccoli & Cheese

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:

  • 44 ingredients
  • 4 additives
  • Nutri-Score B

Less processed chickens

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, water, toasted wheat crumbs with spice extractives, swiss cheese, part skim mozzarella cheese (milk ingredients, milk ingredients, salt, calcium chloride, bacterial culture, microbial enzyme), broccoli, vegetable oil, modified corn starch, soy protein isolate, wheat flour, salt, yellow corn flour, wheat gluten, romano cheese (milk, salt, lipase, microbial enzyme, bacterial culture, cellulose), onion, potassium chloride, sugars (dextrose, sugar), baking powder, soy flour, garlic, spices, spice, parsley, milk ingredients, lemon juice concentrate, egg white (egg white, yeast, citric acid), guar gum

Additives: E1104 Lipase , E330 Citric acid , E412 Guar gum , E460 Cellulose

As written on the pack

chicken, water, toasted wheat crumbs with spice extractives, swiss cheese and part skim mozzarella cheese (milk ingredients, modified milk ingredients, salt, calcium chloride, bacterial culture, microbial enzyme), broccoli, vegetable oil, modified corn starch, soy protein isolate, wheat flour, salt, yellow corn flour, wheat gluten, grated romano cheese (milk, salt, lipase, microbial enzyme, bacterial culture, cellulose), onion powder, potassium chloride, sugars (dextrose, sugar), baking powder, defatted soy flour, garlic powder, spices and spice extractives, dehydrated parsley, milk ingredients, lemon juice concentrate, dried egg white (egg white, yeast, citric acid), guar gum, contains: wheat, milk, soy, egg,

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.

  • E1104 Lipase A food additive authorised for industrial food production.
  • E412 Guar gum Guar gum is a thickener ground from the seeds of the guar plant.
  • E460 Cellulose A food additive used to dissolve, dilute, disperse or otherwise physically modify a food additive or nutrient without altering its function -and without exerting any technological effect itself- in order to facilitate its handling, application or use of the food additive or nutrient.
  • Modified starch Modified starch is starch altered physically, with enzymes or chemically, so that it thickens, gels or survives freezing and heating better than ordinary starch.

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.

  • Dextrose Dextrose is pure glucose crystallised from starch-derived syrup.
  • Glucose Glucose, usually listed as glucose syrup, is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
  • Gluten Wheat gluten, sold as "vital wheat gluten", is the protein washed out of wheat flour.
  • Milk An ingredient mostly produced industrially and rarely used in home kitchens.
5 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.
  • Cheese Cheese is milk preserved with salt, cultures and rennet.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 356 chickens

From least to most processed, this one ranks 346th. 74% of the chickens 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 356 chickens, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0732352780605, last edited 11 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 B (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.