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Is Eat Real Smoked Paprika + Chilli Veggie Straws ultra-processed?

110g Appetizers Sold in the United Kingdom and Greece

Pack of Eat Real Smoked Paprika + Chilli Veggie Straws

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:

  • 27 ingredients
  • 1 additive
  • Nutri-Score E

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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

Vegetables 27% (Yellow Pea, Tomato, Spinach Powder, Kale), Rice Flour, Potato Starch, Rapeseed Oil, Smoked Paprika, Chilli Seasoning (Sugar, Rice Flour, Natural Flavouring, Paprika, Yeast Extract, Garlic, Dextrose, Smoked Paprika, Salt, Chilli, Black Pepper, Cumin, Colour (Paprika Extract), Oregano, Chilli), Salt

Additives: E160c Paprika extract

As written on the pack

Vegetables (27%) (Yellow Pea Flour, Tomato Powder, Spinach Powder, Kale Powder), Rice Flour, Potato Starch, Rapeseed Oil, Smoked Paprika and Chilli Seasoning (Sugar, Rice Flour, Natural Flavouring, Paprika, Yeast Extract, Garlic Powder, Smoked Dextrose, Smoked Paprika, Salt, Chilli Powder, Black Pepper, Cumin, Colour (Paprika Extract), Oregano, Chilli Extract), Salt. 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.

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.
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 2,497 appetizers

From least to most processed, this one ranks 2011th. 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 2,497 appetizers, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5060878780744, last edited 20 February 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 E (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.