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Is Crunchmaster Queso Cheese Flavoured Crackers ultra-processed?

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Pack of Crunchmaster Queso Cheese Flavoured Crackers

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
  • 1 additive
  • Nutri-Score D

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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

Brown rice flour, Sesame seeds, Jalapeno cheddar seasoning (whey, salt, maltodextrin, vegetables (onion, jalapeno pepper, green bell pepper, garlic), cheddar cheese powder (cheddar cheese, whey, buttermilk solids, salt, sodium phosphate, lactic acid), vinegar (maltodextrin, white distilled vinegar), dextrose, yeast extract, spices, natural flavour), Olive oil, Flax seeds, Potato starch, Modified potato starch, Amaranth, Quinoa, Tamari soy sauce (soybeans, salt, maltodextrin), Natural flavour

Additives: E270 Lactic acid

As written on the pack

Brown rice flour, Sesame seeds, Jalapeno cheddar seasoning (whey, salt, maltodextrin, dehydrated vegetables [onion, jalapeno pepper, green bell pepper, garlic], cheddar cheese powder [cheddar cheese, whey, buttermilk solids, salt, sodium phosphate, lactic acid], vinegar powder [maltodextrin, white distilled vinegar], dextrose, yeast extract, spices, natural flavour), Olive oil, Flax seeds, Potato starch, Modified potato starch, Amaranth, Quinoa, Tamari soy sauce powder (soybeans, salt, maltodextrin), Natural flavour.

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.

  • 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.

  • 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.
  • Maltodextrin Maltodextrin is a white powder made by partly breaking down starch.
  • 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.
6 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.
  • Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.
  • Sauce A prepared sauce used as an ingredient.
  • Cheese Cheese is milk preserved with salt, cultures and rennet.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 2,498 appetizers

From least to most processed, this one ranks 2158th. 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 0879890003244, last edited 1 April 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.