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Is Christie Vegetable Thins Original ultra-processed?

180g Appetizers Sold in the United States and Canada

Pack of Christie Vegetable Thins Original

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:

  • 31 ingredients
  • 10 additives
  • Nutri-Score E

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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

Wheat Flour, Shortening (Vegetable Oil, Modified Palm Oil), Dried Vegetable, Seasoning Blend (Carrot, Dextrose, Onion, Salt, Wheat Flour, Celery, Cabbage, Red Bell Pepper, Sugar, Parsley, Natural Flavour, Monosodium Glutamate, Hydrolyzed Wheat Protein, Turmeric Extract, Vegetable Oil), Sugars (Sugar, Glucose-Fructose), Ammonium Bicarbonate, Salt, Monocalcium Phosphate, Baking Soda, Hydrolyzed Soy Protein, Amylase, Protease

Additives: E100 Curcumin , E1100 Alpha-Amylase , E1101 Protease , E341 Calcium phosphates , E341i Monocalcium phosphate , E500 Sodium carbonates , E500ii Sodium hydrogen carbonate , E503 Ammonium carbonates , E503ii Ammonium hydrogen carbonate , E621 Monosodium glutamate

As written on the pack

Wheat Flour, Shortening (Vegetable Oil, Modified Palm Oil), Dried Vegetable And Seasoning Blend (Carrot, Dextrose, Onion, Salt, Wheat Flour, Celery, Cabbage, Red Bell Pepper, Sugar, Parsley, Natural Flavour, Monosodium Glutamate, Hydrolyzed Wheat Protein, Turmeric Extract, Vegetable Oil), Sugars (Sugar, Glucose-Fructose), Ammonium Bicarbonate, Salt, Monocalcium Phosphate, Baking Soda, Hydrolyzed Soy Protein, Amylase, Protease. Contains: Wheat, Soy

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.

  • E100 Curcumin Colours are substances which add or restore colour in a food, and include natural constituents of foods and natural sources which are normally not consumed as foods as such and not normally used as characteristic ingredients of food.
  • 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.

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.
  • 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.
  • 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 2,498 appetizers

From least to most processed, this one ranks 2279th. 64% of the 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 2,498 appetizers, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0066721028358, last edited 14 September 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.