Is Alexia Sweet Potato Tots ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- 21 ingredients
- 2 additives
- Nutri-Score C
Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
sweet potatoes, cane sugar (processing marker), corn starch (processing marker), vegetable oil (processing marker) (contains one and more of the following (high oleic canola), canola, sunflower), rice flour, tapioca starch (processing marker), dextrin (ultra-processing marker), sea salt (processing marker), natural flavor (ultra-processing marker), spice, salad mustard powder (distilled vinegar, mustard seed, salt (processing marker), turmeric, paprika), xanthan gum (ultra-processing marker)
Additives: E1400 Dextrin , E415 Xanthan gum
As written on the pack
sweet potatoes, cane sugar, corn starch, vegetable oil (contains one or more of the following: high oleic canola, canola, sunflower), rice flour, tapioca starch, dextrin, sea salt, natural flavor, spice, salad mustard powder (distilled vinegar, mustard seed, salt, turmeric, paprika), xanthan gum,
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.
- E1400 Dextrin Dextrin is starch partly broken down by heat or acid, used as a thickener, binder and coating.
- E415 Xanthan gum Xanthan gum is a thickener made by fermenting sugar with the bacterium Xanthomonas campestris.
- Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.
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.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0834183007170, last edited 29 April 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 C (from A, best, to E).
- General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.