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Is Tyson Chicken Breast Strips ultra-processed?

3 oz Prepared meats Sold in the United States

Pack of Tyson Chicken Breast Strips

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:

  • 20 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score B

Less processed meats and their products

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

Boneless, skinless chicken breast with rib meat, wheat flour, water, chicken broth, black pepper, brown sugar, chicken fat, chicken broth, dried garlic, dried onion, food starch, lemon juice concentrate, sage, salt, spices, sugar, thyme, yeast, Breading set in vegetable oil

As written on the pack

Boneless, skinless chicken breast with rib meat, wheat flour, water, chicken broth, black pepper, brown sugar, chicken fat, dried chicken broth, dried garlic, dried onion, food starch, lemon juice concentrate, sage, salt, spices, sugar, thyme, yeast. Breading set in vegetable oil. Contains: wheat.

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.

Category rules

Open Food Facts puts every product in this category in at least this group.

  • Prepared meats Products in the category "Prepared meats" are at least group 3.
  • Terrines Products in the category "Terrines" are at least group 3.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 881 prepared meats

From least to most processed, this one ranks 92nd. 73% of the prepared meats 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 881 prepared meats, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0023700060006, last edited 5 June 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.