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Is Whole & Simple Southwestern Style Chicken Quinoa Bowl ultra-processed?

298g Meals with chicken Sold in the United States

Pack of Whole & Simple Southwestern Style Chicken Quinoa Bowl

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
  • 1 additive
  • Nutri-Score A

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

white and red quinoa, brown rice, cooked seasoned chicken breast with rib meat (chicken, water, potato starch, sea salt), water, tomatoes (tomatoes, tomato juice, calcium chloride, citric acid), sweet potatoes, black beans, corn, onions, red bell peppers, lime juice, garlic puree (garlic, water), canola oil, corn starch, salt, spices, cilantro, chipotle

Additives: E330 Citric acid

As written on the pack

cooked white and red quinoa, cooked brown rice, cooked seasoned chicken breast with rib meat (chicken, water, potato starch, sea salt), water, tomatoes (tomatoes, tomato juice, calcium chloride, citric acid), sweet potatoes, black beans, corn, onions, red bell peppers, lime juice, garlic puree (garlic, water), canola oil, corn starch, salt, spices, cilantro, chipotle powder

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.

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 213 meals with chicken

From least to most processed, this one ranks 40th. 79% of the meals with chicken 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 213 meals with chicken, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 4099100165746, last edited 10 July 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.