Is 365 By Whole Foods Veggie straws ultra-processed?

6 oz Sold in the United States

Yes, it's ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

Colour

14 ingredients
No additives
Nutri-Score D

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Potato starch (processing marker), potato, sunflower seed, safflower oil (processing marker), cornstarch (processing marker), salt (processing marker), spinach powder, tomato, cane sugar (processing marker), sea salt (processing marker), beet root powder (color (ultra-processing marker)), turmeric powder (color (ultra-processing marker))

As written on the pack

Potato starch, dehydrated potato, sunflower seed and/or expeller pressed safflower seed oil, cornstarch, salt, spinach powder, tomato powder, cane sugar*, sea salt, beet root powder (color), turmeric powder (color).

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.

Colour Colours are added to restore colour lost in processing or to make a product look more appealing.

4 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.

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.

How the NOVA groups work

About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0099482412746, last edited 20 September 2025), 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 D (from A, best, to E).
General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.