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Is Doritos Roulette ultra-processed?

150g Corn chips Sold in Australia

Pack of Doritos Roulette

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:

  • 35 ingredients
  • 9 additives
  • Nutri-Score E

Less processed corn chips

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

corn, vegetable oil, cheese powder, salt, buttermilk, wheat flour, powder, flavour enhancers (621‚631‚627), food acids (262‚330‚270), tomato, onion, sugar, cream, garlic, colours (110, 1500), vegetable oil, dextrose, natural flavour, mineral salt (339), spices (white pepper, paprika, cayenne pepper, green bell pepper), vinegar, flavours, lime juice, natural colour (160c), products

Additives: E110 Sunset yellow FCF , E160c Paprika extract , E262 Sodium acetates , E270 Lactic acid , E330 Citric acid , E339 Sodium phosphates , E621 Monosodium glutamate , E627 Disodium guanylate , E631 Disodium inosinate

Also detected, but not matched to one ingredient: E110 Sunset yellow FCF, E160c Paprika extract, E621 Monosodium glutamate, E627 Disodium guanylate, E631 Disodium inosinate.

As written on the pack

CORN, VEGETABLE OIL, CHEESE POWDER (MILK), SALT, BUTTERMILK POWDER (MILK), WHEAT FLOUR (GLUTEN), POWDER (MILK), FLAVOUR ENHANCERS (621,631,627), FOOD ACIDS (262,330,270), TOMATO POWDER, ONION POWDER, SUGAR, CREAM POWDER (MILK), GARLIC POWDER, COLOURS (110, 1500), VEGETABLE OIL (SOY), DEXTROSE, NATURAL FLAVOUR, MINERAL SALT (339), SPICES, (WHITE PEPPER, PAPRIKA, CAYENNE PEPPER, GREEN BELL PEPPER), VINEGAR POWDER, FLAVOURS (MILK), LIME JUICE POWDER, NATURAL COLOUR (160C). CONTAINS GLUTEN, MILK, SOYBEANS AND SOYBEAN PRODUCTS.

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.

  • E110 Sunset yellow FCF Sunset yellow FCF is a synthetic orange azo dye (FD&C Yellow No. 6 in the US).
  • E160c Paprika extract Paprika extract is a red-orange colour extracted from paprika peppers.
  • E621 Monosodium glutamate Monosodium glutamate (MSG) is the sodium salt of glutamic acid, made by fermentation and used to strengthen savoury taste.
  • E627 Disodium guanylate Disodium guanylate is a flavour enhancer usually used together with MSG.
  • E631 Disodium inosinate Disodium inosinate is a flavour enhancer usually used together with MSG.
  • Colour Colours are added to restore colour lost in processing or to make a product look more appealing.
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  • Flavour enhancer Flavour enhancers such as monosodium glutamate (E621) strengthen savoury taste without adding a flavour of their own.
  • 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.
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.
  • Cheese Cheese is milk preserved with salt, cultures and rennet.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 359 corn chips

From least to most processed, this one ranks 337th. 46% of the corn chips 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 359 corn chips, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 9310015241734, last edited 11 February 2022), 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.