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Is Asda Exeptional Hand Cooked Sea Salted Crisps ultra-processed?

150g Potato crisps in sunflower oil Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Asda Exeptional Hand Cooked Sea Salted Crisps

It's processed, but not ultra-processed

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

Whole foods combined with:

  • 10 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score D

Less processed crisps

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

Potatoes, Vegetable Oils in varying proportions (Rapeseed, Sunflower), Sea Salt, WARNING Safety first (To avoid danger of suffocation), please keep this bag away from babies and small children, NUTRITION We suggest this product provides 6 servings Typical Values Per Per RI+ 100g 1, 6 pack Energy kJ 2077 519 8400 497 Energy kcal 124 2000 279 6.7g 70g Fat

As written on the pack

Potatoes, Vegetable Oils in varying proportions [Rapeseed, Sunflower], Sea Salt. WARNING Safety first: To avoid danger of suffocation, please keep this bag away from babies and small children. NUTRITION We suggest this product provides 6 servings Typical Values Per Per RI+ 100g 1/6 pack Energy kJ 2077 519 8400 497 Energy kcal 124 2000 279 6.7g 70g Fat

What makes it processed

Culinary ingredients

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.
  • 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.

  • Salty snacks Products in the category "Salty snacks" are at least group 3.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 112 potato crisps in sunflower oil

From least to most processed, this one ranks 56th. 39% of the potato crisps in sunflower oil 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 112 potato crisps in sunflower oil, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5063089654514, last edited 5 June 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.