Korean Style Chicken

Name: Korean Style Chicken
Brand: M&S Food

M&S Food

29336395

Processing

Ultra-processed

Group 4 of 4 on the NOVA scale

Additives listed

0 we grade moderate or higher

3 of them not yet assessed here

Fat per 100g

7.24g

Medium

UK FSA front of pack threshold

Three separate readings, kept apart on purpose. This is not a score, and none of it says this product is harmful.

Additives (4)

This label lists 2 raising agents, 1 acidity regulator and 1 thickener or gelling agent.

E415 Xanthan gum
Thickener and stabiliser No real concern strong evidence

What it is. A fibre made by fermenting sugars with a bacterium, which thickens liquids at very low doses.

Why it is used. Thickens sauces and dressings and gives structure to gluten free baking.

What the evidence says. Passes through largely undigested and is treated as safe by regulators, with no numerical intake limit. Very large amounts act as fibre does, which is a digestive effect rather than a safety one.

Regulatory status UK Permitted EU Permitted US Permitted

Permitted freely.

Assessed against EFSA, JECFA. Full entry for E415

Also on the label, not assessed here yet

E296 Malic acid acidity regulator
E450 Diphosphates raising agent
E500 Sodium carbonates raising agent

Names and jobs come from the register of additives permitted in Great Britain, which we have not finished transcribing: a code shown without a name is a gap in our coverage, not a finding that it is unapproved. Naming one is not grading it either. Full detail appears only where we have an assessment against a named authority, so all of this describes our coverage rather than these additives. Most are common and low concern.

Ingredients

Marinated British Chicken (25%) (Chicken Breast (84%) Rapeseed Oil Garlic Purée. Ground Spices (Ginger Black Pepper Turmeric) Cornflour Salt Coriander) Wheatflour contains Gluten (with Wheatflour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin) Water Carrots (7%) Lettuce. White Cabbage (4%) Red Cabbage (3.5%) Rapeseed Oil Palm Oil Spring Onions Sugar Rice Wine Vinegar. Vinegar Salt Glucose Syrup Raising Agent: Sodium Bicarbonate, E450 Pasteurised Egg Yolk Soybeans. Garlic Purée Fructose White Wine Vinegar Cornflour Lemon Juice Citrus Fibre Concentrated Red Pepper Juice Acidity Regulator: Malic Acid, Citric Acid Concentrated Onion Juice Wheat (contains Gluten) Dried Onions Cayenne Pepper Colour: Paprika Extract Rice Tomato Powder Gelling Agent: Pectin Rice Flour Dried Red Peppers Dried Chillies Dried Garlic Wheat Starch (contains Gluten). Thickener: Xanthan Gum. • • • .

As printed on the pack, in the producer's own order: ingredients are listed by weight, so what comes first is most of what is in it. E numbers link to their assessment where we have one.

Processing level

NOVA group 4: Ultra-processed

Industrial formulations with additives, isolates and ingredients you would not cook with at home. The strongest modern evidence links high intake of these to poorer health outcomes.

Nutrients per 100g

Fat

7.24g

Medium

Saturates

1.40g

Low

Sugars

2.19g

Low

Salt

0.84g

Medium

Judged on the UK FSA front of pack thresholds for solid foods. A dash means the source has no figure, which is not the same as a low one.

Where this came from

Product data from Open Food Facts, which is crowd sourced and can be incomplete or out of date. Photograph from the same source, under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike licence. Our copy is from 17 August 2026: Open Food Facts is checked every night, and a product is rewritten only when its record there has changed, so an older date means the source has not moved rather than that we stopped looking. Something wrong? Correcting it at the source fixes it here and everywhere else that uses the same data. If the problem is one of our additive assessments, tell us.

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