Is Tesco Chicken and bacon Sandwich Filler ultra-processed?

235g Chicken preparations Sold in the United States and Germany

It's processed, but not ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Whole foods combined with:

Preservative
Salt
Sugar
E250 Sodium nitrite

18 ingredients
2 additives
Nutri-Score B

Less processed chicken preparations

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 39%, Water, Smoked Bacon 9% (Pork, Salt (processing marker), Antioxidant (Sodium Ascorbate), Preservative (processing marker) (Sodium Nitrite (processing marker))), Rapeseed Oil, Cornflour, Pasteurised Egg Yolk, Spirit Vinegar, Salt (processing marker), Sugar (processing marker), Lemon Juice from Concentrate, Black Pepper, Made using Thai chicken and EU pork

Additives: E250 Sodium nitrite , E301 Sodium ascorbate

As written on the pack

Cooked Chicken Breast (39%). Water, Smoked Bacon (9%) [Pork, Salt. Antioxidant (Sodium Ascorbate). Preservative (Sodium Nitrite)]. Rapeseed Oil, Cornflour, Pasteurised Egg Yolk, Spirit Vinegar. Salt, Sugar. Lemon Juice from Concentrate, Black Pepper. Made using Thai chicken and EU pork.

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.

Preservation and traditional processing

Keep food safe or ferment it, like preservatives and cultures. A sign of processing, not ultra-processing.

E250 Sodium nitrite 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.
Preservative Preservatives slow spoilage by microbes.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 187 chicken preparations

From least to most processed, this one ranks 35th. 79% of the chicken preparations 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 187 chicken preparations, least processed first

About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5059697733802, last edited 26 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 B (from A, best, to E).
General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.