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Is Asda Just Essentials Eggs ultra-processed?

15 Crackers (Appetizers) Sold in the United Kingdom, France and Switzerland

Pack of Asda Just Essentials Eggs

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:

  • 19 ingredients
  • 1 additive
  • Nutri-Score C

Less processed crackers (Appetizers)

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

wheat flour 60%, vegetable oils (colza vegetable oils, sunflower vegetable oils), emmental 11%, double tomato concentrate 6%, sugar, sweet whey powder, baking powders (calcium phosphates), sodium carbonates, ammonium carbonates, aromatic plants 1%, cooking salt, barley malt flour, oregano, inverted sugar syrup, onion, concentrated purple carrot juice

Additives: E502 Carbonates

Also detected, but not matched to one ingredient: Whey.

As written on the pack

60% wheat flour, vegetable oils (colza, sunflower), 11% emmental (milk), double tomato concentrate 6%, sugar, sweet whey powder (milk), baking powders: calcium phosphates - sodium carbonates - ammonium carbonates, aromatic plants 1%, cooking salt, barley malt flour, oregano extract, inverted sugar syrup, powdered onion, concentrated purple carrot juice

What makes it ultra-processed

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.

  • Invert sugar Invert sugar is ordinary sugar split into glucose and fructose with acid or enzymes.
  • 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.
6 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.

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

How the NOVA groups work

Among 715 crackers (Appetizers)

From least to most processed, this one ranks 439th. 61% of the crackers (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 715 crackers (Appetizers), least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 20408466, last edited 2 August 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 C (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.