Is Calbee North America Llc. Baked Green Pea Snacks Black Pepper ultra-processed?

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Pack of Calbee North America Llc. Baked Green Pea Snacks Black Pepper

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:

  • 24 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

Green peas, vegetable oil (processing marker) (canola, oil (sunflower oil, and safflower oil)), rice, black pepper seasoning (salt (processing marker), corn starch (processing marker), spice, sugar (processing marker), maltodextrin (ultra-processing marker), mushroom powder, onion, garlic, yeast extract, white distilled vinegar, salt (processing marker), citric acid, spice), calcium carbonate, and vitamin c (ascorbyl palmitate)

Additives: E304 Fatty acid esters of ascorbic acid , E304i Ascorbyl palmitate , E330 Citric acid

As written on the pack

Green peas, vegetable oil (canola, sunflower, and/or safflower oil), rice, black pepper seasoning (salt, corn starch, spice, sugar, maltodextrin, mushroom powder, onion powder, garlic powder, yeast extract, white distilled vinegar, salt, citric acid, spice extractive), calcium carbonate, and vitamin c (ascorbyl palmitate).

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.

  • Maltodextrin Maltodextrin is a white powder made by partly breaking down starch.
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.
  • 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.
  • Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 1,471 crisps

From least to most processed, this one ranks 681st. 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 0071146002487, last edited 26 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.