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Is Tesco finest Wild garlic crispy chicken Kievs ultra-processed?

Chicken kievs Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Tesco finest Wild garlic crispy chicken Kievs

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:

  • 29 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score C

Less processed chicken kievs

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 Fillet 67%, Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), West Country Garlic and White Pepper Butter (Butter, Salt, Maize Starch, Wild Garlic, Roast Garlic Purée, White Pepper), Rapeseed Oil, Extra Virgin Olive Oil, Sunflower Oil, Salt, Spices, Water, Wheat Gluten, Wheat Starch, Yeast Extract, Onion, Herbs, Sugar, Dextrose, Garlic, Yeast

As written on the pack

Chicken Breast Fillet (67%), Wheat Flour [Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin], West Country Garlic and White Pepper Butter [Butter (Milk), Salt, Maize Starch, Wild Garlic, Roast Garlic Purée, White Pepper], Rapeseed Oil, Extra Virgin Olive Oil, Sunflower Oil, Salt, Spices, Water, Wheat Gluten, Wheat Starch, Yeast Extract, Onion Powder, Herbs, Sugar, Dextrose, Garlic Powder, Yeast.

What makes it ultra-processed

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.
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.

  • Butter Butter, the fat churned from cream.
  • 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 13 chicken kievs

From least to most processed, this one ranks 8th. 77% of the chicken kievs 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 13 chicken kievs, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5059697704284, 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 C (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.