Is Deluxe Spanish Cheese & Green Olive Tortilla Chips ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- 21 ingredients
- 3 additives
- Nutri-Score C
Less processed corn chips
Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
maize flour, vegetable oils (processing marker) (rapeseed vegetable oils, sunflower vegetable oils), lactose (ultra-processing marker), green olives 2%, sea salt (processing marker), sugar (processing marker), yeast, dried whole milk (processing marker), buttermilk, coriander, dried onion, dried garlic, flavouring (ultra-processing marker), acidity regulators (lactic acid), calcium lactate (ultra-processing marker), citric acid, dried manchego cheese 0.9%, extra virgin olive oil (processing marker) 0.9%
Additives: E270 Lactic acid , E327 Calcium lactate , E330 Citric acid
As written on the pack
maize flour, vegetable oils (rapeseed, sunflower), lactose (milk), 2% dried green olives, sea salt, sugar, dried yeast extract, dried whole milk, dried buttermilk, dried coriander, dried onion, dried garlic, flavouring, acidity regulators: lactic acid, calcium lactate, citric acid, 0,9% dried manchego cheese (milk), 0,9% extra virgin olive oil, allergy advice
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.
- E327 Calcium lactate Thickeners are substances which increase the viscosity of a foodstuff.
- 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.
- Lactose Lactose is milk sugar, crystallised industrially from whey, a by-product of cheese making.
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.
- Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
- Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.
- Milk powder Milk powder is milk with the water evaporated off: a preserved form of a whole food rather than an industrial extract.
Among 359 corn chips
From least to most processed, this one ranks 244th. 46% of the corn chips here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 4335619071506, last edited 6 June 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.