Is Annie's Snack Mix Original ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- 29 ingredients
- 3 additives
- Nutri-Score D
Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
Wheat Flour, Vegetable Oil (processing marker) (Sunflower, Canola Oil), Clarified Butter, Salt (processing marker), Cane Sugar (processing marker), Yeast, Malt Syrup Blend (Tapioca Syrup, Malt Extract), Onion, Cheddar Cheese (processing marker) (Milk, Cheese Cultures, Sea Salt (processing marker), Enzymes), Paprika, Baking Soda, Garlic, Cream, Barley Malt Extract, Allspice, Cultured Milk, Nonfat Dry Milk (processing marker), Celery Seed, Annatto (ultra-processing marker) (For Color (ultra-processing marker)), Enzymes
Additives: E160b Annatto , 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 Clarified Butter, Salt, Organic Cane Sugar, Yeast, Organic Malt Syrup Blend (Tapioca Syrup, Malt Extract), Organic Onion, Organic Cheddar Cheese (Pasteurized Organic Milk, Cheese Cultures, Sea Salt, Non-animal Enzymes), Organic Paprika, Baking Soda, Organic Garlic Powder, Organic Cream, Organic Barley Malt Extract, Organic Allspice, Cultured Organic Milk, Organic Nonfat Dry Milk, Organic Celery Seed Powder, Organic Annatto (For Color), Enzymes.
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.
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.
- 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.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0013562300556, last edited 16 January 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.