Is Waitrose Breaded chicken steaks ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- 36 ingredients
- 1 additive
- Nutri-Score B
Less processed breaded chicken
Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
Chicken 62%, water, wheat flour (wheat flour, calcium carbonate, iron, niacin, thiamin), rapeseed oil, wheat starch (processing marker), salt (processing marker), pea fibre (ultra-processing marker), yeast, yeast extract, sugar (processing marker), garlic, onion, paprika, dextrose (ultra-processing marker), sage, white pepper ALLERGY ADVICE, including cereals containing gluten, Preparation (All cooking appliances vary, This is a guide only, Wash hands after handling raw poultry, Unwrap and dispose of packaging carefully, Use separate kitchen utensils and surfaces for raw poultry and cooked), and wash between uses, oven cook chilled gas 6, 200°c, FAN 180°C 22-24 mins Preheat oven, Remove all packaging, Place on a baking tray in centre of the oven until thoroughly cooked and no pink colour remains, Do not reheat once cooled, NUTRITION TYPICAL VALUES AS PREPARED Energy k Energy kcal TRAY Recycle FILM Don't Recycle Fat
Additives: E200 Sorbic acid
As written on the pack
Chicken (62%), water, wheat flour (wheat flour, calcium carbonate, iron, niacin, thiamin), rapeseed oil, wheat starch, salt, pea fibre, yeast, yeast extract, sugar, garlic powder, onion powder, paprika, dextrose, sage, white pepper ALLERGY ADVICE: For allergens, including cereals containing gluten, see ingredients in bold. Preparation: All cooking appliances vary. This is a guide only. Wash hands after handling raw poultry. Unwrap and dispose of packaging carefully. Use separate kitchen utensils and surfaces for raw poultry and cooked, or wash between uses. OVEN COOK CHILLED GAS 6, 200°C, FAN 180°C 22-24 mins Preheat oven. Remove all packaging. Place on a baking tray in centre of the oven until thoroughly cooked and no pink colour remains. Do not reheat once cooled. NUTRITION TYPICAL VALUES AS PREPARED Energy k Energy kcal TRAY Recycle FILM Don't Recycle Fat
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.
- 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.
3 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.
Among 115 breaded chicken
From least to most processed, this one ranks 75th. 83% of the breaded chicken here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5000169127339, 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 B (from A, best, to E).
- General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.