Is America's Choice Wafers, Vanilla ultra-processed?
It's processed, but not ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Whole foods combined with:
- 16 ingredients
- No additives
- Nutri-Score E
Less processed sweet snacks
Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
flour (wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamin mononitrate (vitamin b1), riboflavin (vitamin b2), folic acid), sugar (processing marker), vegetable oil (processing marker) (contains one and more of the following (canola), palm, soybean with tbhq for freshness), contains two percent or
As written on the pack
Enriched flour (wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamin mononitrate [vitamin b1], riboflavin [vitamin b2], folic acid), sugar, vegetable oil (contains one or more of the following: canola, palm, soybean with tbhq for freshness), contains two percent or
What makes it processed
Culinary ingredients
Kitchen staples like sugar, salt and oil. On their own they make a food processed, not ultra-processed.
- Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
- Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.
Category rules
Open Food Facts puts every product in this category in at least this group.
- Sweet snacks Products in the category "Sweet snacks" are at least group 3.
Among 39 stuffed wafers
From least to most processed, this one ranks 2nd. 90% of the stuffed wafers here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0754807201060, last edited 18 July 2019), available under the Open Database License. If something is wrong or the recipe has changed, you can correct it there.
- 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 E (from A, best, to E).
- General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.