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Is Alexia Sweet Potato Waffle Cut Fries ultra-processed?

20 oz Sweet potato fries Sold in the United States

Pack of Alexia Sweet Potato Waffle Cut Fries

Yes, it's ultra-processed

  1. 1 Unprocessed
  2. 2 Kitchen staple
  3. 3 Processed
  4. 4 Ultra-processed

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

  • 21 ingredients
  • 2 additives
  • Nutri-Score C

Less processed chips and fries

Less processed isn't automatically healthier, so compare the labels for what matters to you, such as sugar or salt.

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Sweet potatoes, vegetable oil (contains one and more of the following (high oleic canola), canola, sunflower), rice flour, cane sugar, tapioca starch, corn starch, tapioca dextrin, sea salt, garlic powder, onion powder, chili pepper, red pepper, yeast, black pepper, cumin, xanthan gum, gluconic acid

Additives: E1400 Dextrin , E415 Xanthan gum

As written on the pack

Sweet potatoes, vegetable oil (contains one or more of the following: high oleic canola, canola, sunflower), rice flour, cane sugar, tapioca starch, corn starch, tapioca dextrin, sea salt, garlic powder, onion powder, chili pepper, red pepper, dried yeast, black pepper, cumin, xanthan gum, gluconic acid.

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.
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

Among 10 sweet potato fries

From least to most processed, this one ranks 6th. 90% of the sweet potato fries 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 10 sweet potato fries, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0834183007149, last edited 25 August 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.