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Is Baked pretzels sour cream and chive ultra-processed?

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Pack of Baked pretzels sour cream and chive

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:

  • 36 ingredients
  • 3 additives
  • Nutri-Score C

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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

Flour (WHEAT Flour, Calcium, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Potato, Rapeseed Oil, Sour Cream, Chive Flavour (Salt, Sugar, Spirit Vinegar, Dried Garlic, Dried Onion, Yeast Extract, Yoghurt, Potassium Chloride, Crème Fraîche (Crème Fraîche, Butter, Natural Flavourings), Dried Tomato, Whey, Natural Flavourings, Acid (Citric Acid), Parsley, Colour (Paprika Extract)), Dextrose, Maize Starch, Acidity Regulator (Sodium Hydroxide), including cereals containing gluten, V

Additives: E160c Paprika extract , E330 Citric acid , E524 Sodium hydroxide

As written on the pack

Flour (WHEAT Flour, Calcium, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Dried Potato, Rapeseed Oil, Sour Cream & Chive Flavour [Salt, Sugar, Dried Spirit Vinegar, Dried Garlic, Dried Onion, Yeast Extract, Dried Yoghurt (MILK), Potassium Chloride, Dried Crème Fraîche (contains MILK Protein, Crème Fraîche (MILK), Butter (MILK), Natural Flavourings), Dried Tomato, Dried Whey (MILK), Natural Flavourings, Acid: Citric Acid, Dried Parsley, Colour: Paprika Extract], Dextrose, Maize Starch, Acidity Regulator: Sodium Hydroxide. For allergens, including cereals containing gluten, see ingredients in bold. V SUITABLE FOR VEGETARIANS

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.

  • E160c Paprika extract Paprika extract is a red-orange colour extracted from paprika peppers.
  • Colour Colours are added to restore colour lost in processing or to make a product look more appealing.
  • Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.

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.

  • Dextrose Dextrose is pure glucose crystallised from starch-derived syrup.
  • Glucose Glucose, usually listed as glucose syrup, is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
  • 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.
  • Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 1,471 crisps

From least to most processed, this one ranks 1251st. 64% of the crisps 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 1,471 crisps, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5000237128770, last edited 27 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 C (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.