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Is Tesco Keralan Inspired Chicken Soup ultra-processed?

Poultry meals Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Tesco Keralan Inspired Chicken Soup

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:

  • 28 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score B

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Water, Desiccated Coconut, Chicken 6% (Chicken Breast, Chicken Thigh, Cornflour), Carrot, Onion, Red Pepper, Cornflour, Spinach, Chicken Stock (Water, Chicken, Yeast Extract Salt, Potato, Chicken Fat), Spices, Ginger, Garlic Purée, Sugar, Salt, Red Chilli Black Pepper, Chilli, Ginger Powder, Garlic Powder, Onion Powder, Bay

As written on the pack

Water, Desiccated Coconut, Cooked Chicken (6%) [Chicken Breast, Chicken Thigh, Cornflour], Carrot, Onion, Red Pepper, Cornflour, Spinach, 4 Chicken Stock [Water, Chicken, Yeast Extract Salt, Dried Potato, Chicken Fat], Spices, Ginger Purée, Garlic Purée, Sugar, Salt, Red Chilli Black Pepper, Chilli Powder, Ginger Powder, Garlic Powder, Onion Powder, Bay

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.

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 233 poultry meals

From least to most processed, this one ranks 17th. 78% of the poultry meals 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 233 poultry meals, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5059697402227, last edited 2 October 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.