Is VFC Chick*n Fillets ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- 41 ingredients
- 2 additives
- Nutri-Score C
Less processed meat analogues
Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
Water, Vegetable Oils (processing marker) (Rapeseed Vegetable Oils, Sunflower Vegetable Oils), Fortified Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Niacin, Iron, Thiamin), Vegetable Proteins 10% (Soya, Wheat, Pea, Potato, Fava Bean), Cornflakes 8% (Maize, Sugar (processing marker), Salt (processing marker), Barley Malt Extract), Starch (processing marker), Flavouring (ultra-processing marker), Thickener (ultra-processing marker) (Methyl Cellulose (ultra-processing marker)), Spices, Salt (processing marker), Vegetable Fibres (ultra-processing marker) (Pea, Psyllium, Citrus, Sugar Cane), Natural Flavouring (ultra-processing marker), Vinegar, Preservative (processing marker) (Lactic Acid), Herbs, Dextrose (ultra-processing marker), Iron, Vitamin B12, Spice Extracts
Additives: E270 Lactic acid , E461 Methyl cellulose
As written on the pack
Water, Vegetable Oils (Rapeseed, Sunflower), Fortified Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Niacin, Iron, Thiamin), Vegetable Proteins (10%) (Soya, Wheat, Pea, Potato, Fava Bean), Cornflakes (8%) (Maize, Sugar, Salt, Barley Malt Extract), Starch (contains Wheat), Flavouring, Thickener: Methyl Cellulose, Spices, Salt, Vegetable Fibres (Pea, Psyllium, Citrus, Sugar Cane), Natural Flavouring, Vinegar, Preservative: Lactic Acid, Herbs, Dextrose, Iron, Vitamin B12, Spice Extracts
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.
- E461 Methyl cellulose Emulsifiers are substances which make it possible to form or maintain a homogenous mixture of two or more immiscible phases such as oil and water in a foodstuff.
- Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.
- Thickener Thickeners, often gums or modified starches, make liquids more viscous so that a product feels richer than its ingredients alone would make it.
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.
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.
- Preservative Preservatives slow spoilage by microbes.
- 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.
Among 511 meat analogues
From least to most processed, this one ranks 379th. 80% of the meat analogues here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5060884430459, 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.