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Is TESCO finest Roast Chicken Breast with Pork, Sage & Onion Stuffing ultra-processed?

Chickens Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of TESCO finest Roast Chicken Breast with Pork, Sage & Onion Stuffing

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:

  • 30 ingredients
  • 4 additives
  • Nutri-Score C

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 breast 83%, pork, onion, sage stuffing (pork, onion, rice flour, maize flour, water, potato starch, sage, pea fibre, sugar, salt, maize starch, parsley, nutmeg, stabilisers, tetrasodium diphosphate, disodium diphosphate white pepper, dextrose), chicken, sea salt salt, colour (plain caramel), chicken fat, yeast extract, cornflour, antioxidant (extracts of rosemary)

Additives: E150a Plain caramel , E392 Extracts of rosemary , E450 Diphosphates , E450iii Tetrasodium diphosphate

As written on the pack

chicken breast (83%), gluten free pork, onion and sage stuffing [pork, onion, rice flour, maize flour, water, potato starch, sage, pea fibre, sugar, salt, maize starch, parsley, nutmeg, stabilisers (tetrasodium diphosphate, disodium diphosphate white pepper, dextrose], chicken extract, sea salt salt, colour (plain caramel), chicken fat, yeast extract, cornflour, antioxidant (extracts of rosemary)

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.

  • E150a Plain caramel Plain caramel is a brown colour made by heating sugars.
  • E450 Diphosphates Diphosphates are phosphate salts used as raising agents in baking powder, and to hold water in processed meats and cheese.
  • 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.

  • 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.
  • Vegetable fiber Isolated plant fibres, such as inulin, oat fibre or bamboo fibre, are extracted industrially and added to change texture or support "source of fibre" claims.
3 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.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 356 chickens

From least to most processed, this one ranks 328th. 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 5059697766282, last edited 6 May 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.