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Is Tesco finest Moroccan Inspired Chicken with Dates and Ras El Hanout ultra-processed?

Chicken and vegetables soup Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Tesco finest Moroccan Inspired Chicken with Dates and Ras El Hanout

It's processed, but not ultra-processed

  1. 1 Unprocessed
  2. 2 Kitchen staple
  3. 3 Processed
  4. 4 Ultra-processed

Whole foods combined with:

  • 32 ingredients
  • 1 additive
  • Nutri-Score A

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Tomato, Water, Onion, Chickpeas, British Chicken 6%, Tomato Purée, Date, Apricot, Spices, Ras-el Hanout (Spices, Sugar, Cumin Seed, Coriander Seed, Salt, Red Chilli, Fennel Seed, Onion, Black Pepper, Pink Peppercorns, Rose Petals, Black Onion Seed, Ginger Powder, Galangal), Pear, Rapeseed Oil, Potato Starch, Rice Flour, Coriander, Salt, Black Pepper, Preservative

Additives: E220 Sulphur dioxide

As written on the pack

Tomato, Water, Onion, Chickpeas, Cooked British Chicken (6%), Tomato Purée, Date, Apricot, Spices, Ras-el Hanout (Spices, Sugar, Cumin Seed, Coriander Seed, Salt, Dried Red Chilli, Fennel Seed, Onion Powder, Black Pepper, Pink Peppercorns, Rose Petals, Black Onion Seed, Ginger Powder, Galangal), Pear, Rapeseed Oil, Potato Starch, Rice Flour, Coriander, Salt, Black Pepper, Preservative (Sulphur Dioxide).

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.
  • Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.
  • 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.

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 12 chicken and vegetables soup

From least to most processed, this one ranks 7th. 42% of the chicken and vegetables soup 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 12 chicken and vegetables soup, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5051790670671, last edited 27 March 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 A (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.