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Is Christie Crispers (All Dressed) ultra-processed?

145 g Small Crackers Sold in Canada

Pack of Christie Crispers (All Dressed)

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:

  • 29 ingredients
  • 10 additives
  • Nutri-Score E

Less processed small Crackers

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, potato flour, shortening, modified corn starch, corn starch, sugar, salt, sodium diacetate, dried glucose syrup, torula yeast, autolyzed yeast extract, spices, sodium acetate, onion, monosodium glutamate, garlic, natural flavor, paprika, citric acid, glucose-fructose, modified potato starch, potato starch, wheat bran, malted barley flour, soy lecithin, baking soda, sulfites, annatto, caramel color

Additives: E150c Ammonia caramel , E262 Sodium acetates , E262i Sodium acetate , E262ii Sodium diacetate , E322 Lecithins , E322i Lecithin , E330 Citric acid , E500 Sodium carbonates , E500ii Sodium hydrogen carbonate , E621 Monosodium glutamate

Also detected, but not matched to one ingredient: E150c Ammonia caramel.

As written on the pack

Wheat flour, potato flour, shortening, modified corn starch, corn starch, sugar, salt, sodium diacetate, dried glucose syrup, torula yeast, autolyzed yeast extract, spices, sodium acetate, onion powder, monosodium glutamate, garlic powder, natural flavor, paprika, citric acid, glucose-fructose, modified potato starch, potato starch, wheat bran, malted barley flour, soy lecithin, baking soda, sulfites, annatto extract, caramel color.

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.

  • E150c Ammonia caramel Ammonia caramel is a brown colour made by heating sugars with ammonia compounds.
  • E322 Lecithins Lecithins are fatty substances extracted mostly from soybeans, sunflower seeds or eggs, used as emulsifiers to keep fat and water mixed, for example in chocolate.
  • E621 Monosodium glutamate Monosodium glutamate (MSG) is the sodium salt of glutamic acid, made by fermentation and used to strengthen savoury taste.
  • Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.
  • Modified starch Modified starch is starch altered physically, with enzymes or chemically, so that it thickens, gels or survives freezing and heating better than ordinary starch.

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.

  • Glucose Glucose, usually listed as glucose syrup, is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
  • Glucose syrup Glucose syrup is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
  • Fructose Fructose is the sugar found naturally in fruit and honey, but as an ingredient it is refined industrially, mostly from corn starch.
4 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.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 16 small Crackers

From least to most processed, this one ranks 16th. 63% of the small Crackers 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 16 small Crackers, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0066721026521, last edited 2 May 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 E (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.