Is Annie's Cheddar Cheesy Smiles ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- 15 ingredients
- 1 additive
- Nutri-Score E
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Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
yellow corn meal, corn meal, sunflower oil (processing marker), cheddar cheese (processing marker) (milk, salt (processing marker), enzymes), whey (ultra-processing marker), butter (processing marker), salt (processing marker), silicon dioxide (for anticaking), vinegar, annatto (ultra-processing marker) (for color (ultra-processing marker))
Additives: E160b Annatto
As written on the pack
Whole grain organic yellow corn meal, organic corn meal, organic expeller-pressed sunflower oil, organic cheddar cheese (organic cultured pasteurized milk, salt, non-animal enzymes), organic whey, organic butter, salt, silicon dioxide (for anticaking), organic vinegar, organic annatto (for 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.
- E160b Annatto Colours are substances which add or restore colour in a food, and include natural constituents of foods and natural sources which are normally not consumed as foods as such and not normally used as characteristic ingredients of food.
- Colour Colours are added to restore colour lost in processing or to make a product look more appealing.
Substances rarely used in home kitchens
Refined or extracted in factories, such as syrups made from starch or isolated proteins. The other hallmark of ultra-processed food.
- Whey Whey is the liquid left over from cheese making, usually dried into a powder and used as a cheap source of milk solids, protein and lactose.
5 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.
- Salty snacks Products in the category "Salty snacks" are at least group 3.
- Butter Butter, the fat churned from cream.
- Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
- Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.
- Cheese Cheese is milk preserved with salt, cultures and rennet.
Among 2,497 appetizers
From least to most processed, this one ranks 1614th. 64% of the appetizers here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0013562496587, last edited 21 March 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 E (from A, best, to E).
- General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.