Is Easy Pop EazyPop Microwave Popcorn Sweet and Salted Flavour ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- 9 ingredients
- 3 additives
- Nutri-Score D
Less processed popcorn
Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
Pop-corn 78%, partially hydrogenated palm oil (ultra-processing marker), sugar (processing marker), salt (processing marker), sunflower lecithin (ultra-processing marker) (e322), sweetener (ultra-processing marker), sucralose (ultra-processing marker) (e955)
Additives: E322 Lecithins , E322i Lecithin , E955 Sucralose
As written on the pack
Pop-corn (78%), partially hydrogenated palm oil, sugar, salt, emulsifier sunflower lecithin (E322), sweetener/ sucralose (E955)
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.
- 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.
- E955 Sucralose Sucralose is a sweetener made by chlorinating sugar.
- Sweetener Sweeteners give sweetness with few or no calories, many at hundreds of times the strength of sugar.
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.
- Hydrogenated oil Hydrogenation turns liquid oil into a solid fat that resists going rancid.
3 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.
- 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.
Among 188 popcorn
From least to most processed, this one ranks 175th. 57% of the popcorn here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5023751000780, last edited 5 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 D (from A, best, to E).
- General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.