Is Annie's Snack mix ultra-processed?

9 oz Appetizers Sold in the United States and France

Pack of Annie's Snack mix

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:

  • 43 ingredients
  • 4 additives
  • Nutri-Score D

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Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

wheat flour, vegetable oil (processing marker) (sunflower, canola oil), whole wheat flour, cheddar cheese (processing marker) (milk, salt (processing marker), enzymes), whey (ultra-processing marker), salt (processing marker), butter (processing marker) (cream, salt (processing marker)), cheddar cheese (processing marker) (milk, cheese cultures, sea salt (processing marker), enzymes), cane sugar (processing marker), yeast, cream, malt syrup blend (tapioca syrup, malt extract), barley malt extract, baking soda, paprika, silicon dioxide (anticaking agent (processing marker)), vinegar, annatto (ultra-processing marker) (for color (ultra-processing marker)), whey (ultra-processing marker), cultured milk, nonfat dry milk (processing marker), annatto (ultra-processing marker), onion, celery seed, enzymes, mixed tocopherols (vitamin e), to protect flavor (processing marker)

Additives: E160b Annatto , E306 Tocopherol-rich extract , E500 Sodium carbonates , E500ii Sodium hydrogen carbonate

As written on the pack

Organic wheat flour, organic expeller-pressed vegetable oil (organic sunflower and/or organic canola oil), organic whole wheat flour, organic dried cheddar cheese (organic cultured pasteurized milk, salt, non-animal enzymes), organic whey, salt, organic butter (organic cream, salt), organic cheddar cheese (pasteurized organic milk, cheese cultures, sea salt, non-animal enzymes), organic cane sugar, yeast, organic cream, organic malt syrup blend (tapioca syrup, malt extract), organic barley malt extract, baking soda, organic paprika, silicon dioxide (anticaking agent), organic vinegar, organic annatto (for color), cultured organic whey, cultured organic milk, organic nonfat dry milk, organic annatto, organic onion, organic celery seed powder, enzymes, mixed tocopherols (vitamin e) to protect flavor .

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.
9 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.
  • Anti-caking agent Anti-caking agents are substances which reduce the tendency of individual particles of a foodstuff to adhere to one another.
  • Butter Butter, the fat churned from cream.
  • Preservative Preservatives slow spoilage by microbes.
  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
  • Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.
  • Cheese Cheese is milk preserved with salt, cultures and rennet.
  • Milk powder Milk powder is milk with the water evaporated off: a preserved form of a whole food rather than an industrial extract.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 2,497 appetizers

From least to most processed, this one ranks 1769th. 64% of the appetizers 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 2,497 appetizers, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0013562300570, last edited 18 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 D (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.