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Is Eat Real Quinoa Chips Sundried Tomato & Roasted Garlic Flavour ultra-processed?

22g Crisps Sold in the United Kingdom and France

Pack of Eat Real Quinoa Chips Sundried Tomato & Roasted Garlic Flavour

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:

  • 25 ingredients
  • 1 additive
  • Nutri-Score D

Less processed crisps

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

Quinoa Flour 21%, Maize Flour, Rapeseed Oil, Rice Flour, Sun-dried Tomato, Roasted Garlic Flavour Seasoning (Sugar, Rice Flour, Tomato, Garlic, Salt, Garlic, Carob Flour, Natural Flavouring, Oregano, Cayenne Pepper, Colour (Paprika Extract), Onion, Tomato), Maize Starch, Lentil Flour, Pea Flour, Sugar, Salt

Additives: E160c Paprika extract

As written on the pack

Quinoa Flour (21%), Maize Flour, Rapeseed Oil, Rice Flour, Sun-dried Tomato & Roasted Garlic Flavour Seasoning [Sugar, Rice Flour, Tomato Powder, Roasted Garlic Powder, Salt, Garlic Powder, Carob Flour, Natural Flavouring, Oregano, Cayenne Pepper, Colour (Paprika Extract), Onion Juice Concentrate, Sun-dried Tomato Powder], Maize Starch, Lentil Flour, Pea Flour, Sugar, Salt. May contain soya. Packaged in a protective atmosphere.

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.

  • E160c Paprika extract Paprika extract is a red-orange colour extracted from paprika peppers.
  • Colour Colours are added to restore colour lost in processing or to make a product look more appealing.
  • Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.
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.
  • Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 1,471 crisps

From least to most processed, this one ranks 914th. 64% of the crisps 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 1,471 crisps, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5026489494128, last edited 16 March 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.