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Puffed salty snacks made from maize, from least to most processed

We track 21 puffed salty snacks made from maize, 86% of them ultra-processed. The least processed is Lightly Salted Low Fat Corn Cakes.

What makes puffed salty snacks made from maize ultra-processed

The signs of ultra-processing found most often, and the share of puffed salty snacks made from maize that contain each:

Processed food (3)

  1. 1 Lightly Salted Low Fat Corn Cakes Kallo 3
  2. 2 Original Sun Chips · 7 oz (198.4 g) 3
  3. 3 Protein Cheese Flavour Chips Popcrisp · 60 g 3

Ultra-processed food (18)

  1. 4 Puffcorn Like Air · 4 oz 4
  2. 5 Nik Naks Nice 'N' Spicy KP Snacks · 45g 4
  3. 6 Nice 'n' Spicy Flavour Corn Snack Nik Naks · 6 x 20 g 4
  4. 7 Baked Cheese Crunchies Trader Joe's · 7 oz 4
  5. 8 Reduced Fat Cheese Puffs Trader Joe's 4
  6. 9 Margherita pizza puffs Tesco · 125g 4
  7. 10 Jalapeño Popper Flavored Popcorn Snack Popcorers · 6.5 oz 4
  8. 11 Monster Munch pickled onion Walkers 4
  9. 12 Olw Cheez doodles Orkla · 35g 4
  10. 13 Sun Chips Minis Frito-Lay · 3.75 g 4
  11. 14 Cheez Doodles OLW · 225 g 4
  12. 15 Harvest Cheddar Sun Chips · 7 oz (198.4 g) 4
  13. 16 Crunchy Cheetos · 1 oz (28.3 g) 4
  14. 17 Cheez Cruncherz - Flaming Hot OLW · 225 g 4
  15. 18 Baked Wotsits 12 Really Cheesy flavour corn puffs Walkers · 12 x 16.5 g 4
  16. 19 Cheese Puffs Snackrite · 150g 4
  17. 20 Cheese Puffs Aldi · 10 x 18 g 4
  18. 21 Cheetos Cheese Lay's · 85 g 4

Within each group, products with fewer signs of ultra-processing, additives and ingredients come first. This ordering is ours, for comparison; it is not part of NOVA.