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Is Blanco niño chili and lime ultra-processed?

170g Crisps Sold in the United Kingdom and Ireland

Pack of Blanco niño chili and lime

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:

  • 16 ingredients
  • 5 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

Non-GMO White Corn 88.8%, Salt, Brown Rice Flour, Citric Acid, Sugar, Chilli 0.8%, Paprika, Ancho Chile 0.2%, Sodium Bicarbonate, Onion, Lime Juice 0.2%, Yeast Extract, Cayenne Pepper, Sunflower Oil, Tartaric Acid, Calcium Silicate

Additives: E330 Citric acid , E334 L(+)-tartaric acid , E500 Sodium carbonates , E500ii Sodium hydrogen carbonate , E552 Calcium silicate

As written on the pack

Non-GMO White Corn (88.8%), Salt, Brown Rice Flour, Citric Acid, Sugar, Chilli Powder (0.8%), Paprika, Ancho Chile (0.2%), Sodium Bicarbonate, Onion Powder, Lime Juice Powder (0.2%), Yeast Extract, Cayenne Pepper, Sunflower Oil, Tartaric Acid, Calcium Silicate

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.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
  • 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 1,471 crisps

From least to most processed, this one ranks 524th. 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 5391528040292, 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 D (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.