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Is Taimo Foods Ltd smoky chicken & rice salad with zesty miso dressing TO-GO ultra-processed?

255g Chicken salads Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Taimo Foods Ltd smoky chicken & rice salad with zesty miso dressing TO-GO

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:

  • 69 ingredients
  • 4 additives
  • Nutri-Score C

Less processed chicken salads

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

Cooked rice 21% (water, rice, sugar, spirit vinegar, rice vinegar, salt, rapeseed oil, fructose-glucose syrup, cane molasses), smokey grilled chicken 16%, chicken breast, smokey grill seasoning (sugar, tomato powder, smoked paprika, salt, maize starch, onion, yeast extract, burnt sugar powder, garlic powder, black pepper, rapeseed oil, silicon dioxide, parsley, chilli), salt, zesty miso dressing 14% (rapeseed oil, water, rice vinegar, sugar, soya beans, salt, lemon juice, rice, free range egg, egg yolk, chilli purée, spirit vinegar, alcohol, cornflour, sesame seed oil, lemor, juice, ginger, onion, lime juice concentrate, garlic puree, garlic powder, cayenne pepper, potassium sorbate, calcium disodium EDTA, paprika extract), red quinoa 11% (water, red quinoa), shelled edamame beans 10%, red cabbage 6% (red cabbage, rice vinegar, sugar, salt), cos lettuce, red peppers 5%, grilled yellow peppers 5%, carrot, rocket

Additives: E160c Paprika extract , E202 Potassium sorbate , E385 Calcium disodium ethylenediaminetetraacetate , E551 Silicon dioxide

As written on the pack

Cooked rice (21%) (water, rice, sugar, spirit vinegar, rice vinegar, salt, rapeseed oil, fructose-glucose syrup, cane molasses), smokey grilled chicken (16%) (chicken breast, smokey grill seasoning (sugar, tomato powder, smoked paprika powder, salt, maize starch, onion granules, yeast extract, burnt sugar powder, garlic powder, black pepper, rapeseed oil, anti-caking agent (silicon dioxide), dried parsley, chilli powder), salt), zesty miso dressing (14%) (rapeseed oil, water, rice vinegar, sugar, soya beans, salt, lemon juice, rice, pasteurised free range egg and egg yolk, chilli purée, spirit vinegar, alcohol, cornflour, sesame seed oil, lemor/juice from concentrate, ginger purée, onion puree, lime juice concentrate, garlic puree, garlic powder, cayenne pepper, preservative (potassium sorbate), antioxidant (calcium disodium EDTA), colour (paprika extract)), cooked red quinoa (11%) (water, red quinoa), shelled edamame beans (10%) (soya), pickled red cabbage (6%) (red cabbage, rice vinegar, sugar, salt), cos lettuce, grilled red peppers (5%), grilled yellow peppers (5%), carrot, rocket.

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.
  • E551 Silicon dioxide 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.

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.
  • Fructose Fructose is the sugar found naturally in fruit and honey, but as an ingredient it is refined industrially, mostly from corn starch.
6 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.

  • E202 Potassium sorbate 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.
  • Meals Products in the category "Meals" are at least group 3.
  • 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.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 9 chicken salads

From least to most processed, this one ranks 5th. 78% of the chicken salads 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 9 chicken salads, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5035272202499, last edited 16 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.