Is Tesco Skinless chicken breast fillets with smoked dry cu ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- 38 ingredients
- 4 additives
- Nutri-Score A
Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
Chicken Breast Fillet 60%, Barbecue Sauce Sachet 25% (Water, Sugar (processing marker), Tomato Purée, White Wine Vinegar, Concentrated Lemon Juice, Cornflour, Molasses (processing marker), Salt (processing marker), Onion, Spirit Vinegar, Soya Bean, Black Treacle (processing marker), Garlic Purée, Smoked Paprika, Black Pepper, Tamarind, Onion, Garlic, White Pepper, Pimento, Ginger, Paprika, Clove), Smoked Dry Cure Streaky Bacon 6% (Pork Belly, Sea Salt (processing marker), Sugar (processing marker), Preservatives (processing marker) (Potassium Nitrate (processing marker), Sodium Nitrite (processing marker))), Mild Cheddar Cheese (processing marker), Red Leicester Cheese (processing marker) (with Colour (ultra-processing marker) (Annatto Norbixin (ultra-processing marker))), Made using British and EU chicken and British pork, See front of pack for specific chicken
Additives: E160b Annatto , E160bii Annatto norbixin , E250 Sodium nitrite , E252 Potassium nitrate
As written on the pack
Chicken Breast Fillet (60%). Barbecue Sauce Sachet (25%) [Water. Sugar. Tomato Purée. White Wine Vinegar. Concentrated Lemon Juice. Cornflour. Molasses, Salt. Onion. Spirit Vinegar. Soya Bean, Black Treacle, Garlic Purée. Smoked Paprika. Black Pepper. Tamarind Concentrate. Onion Powder. Garlic Powder. White Pepper. Pimento, Ginger. Paprika. Clove]. Smoked Dry Cure Streaky Bacon (6%) [Pork Belly, Sea Salt, Sugar. Preservatives (Potassium Nitrate, Sodium Nitrite)]. Mild Cheddar Cheese (Milk). Red Leicester Cheese (with Colour: Annatto Norbixin) (Milk). Made using British or EU chicken and British pork. See front of pack for specific chicken origin. Allergy Advice
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.
- E160b Annatto Colours are substances which add or restore colour in a food, and include natural constituents of foods and natural sources which are normally not consumed as foods as such and not normally used as characteristic ingredients of food.
- Colour Colours are added to restore colour lost in processing or to make a product look more appealing.
6 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.
- 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.
- E252 Potassium nitrate 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.
- Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
- Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
- Cheese Cheese is milk preserved with salt, cultures and rennet.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5059697681813, last edited 26 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.