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Is Elephant Pretzels caramelized onions ultra-processed?

160 g Crackers (Appetizers) Sold in Ireland, France and Germany

Pack of Elephant Pretzels caramelized onions

It's processed, but not ultra-processed

  1. 1 Unprocessed
  2. 2 Kitchen staple
  3. 3 Processed
  4. 4 Ultra-processed

Whole foods combined with:

  • 15 ingredients
  • 1 additive
  • Nutri-Score D

Less processed appetizers

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

White wheat flour, vegetable oil (rapeseed vegetable oil, sunflower vegetable oil), sugar, barley malt extract, whole wheat flour, dehydrated onion 3%, rye sourdough, brown sugar, sea salt, yeast extract, dm dehydrated garlic, antioxidant (rosemary extract)

Additives: E392 Extracts of rosemary

As written on the pack

White wheat flour, vegetable oil (rapeseed, sunflower), sugar, barley malt extract, whole wheat flour, dehydrated onion 3%, rye sourdough, brown sugar, sea salt, yeast extract,dm dehydrated garlic, antioxidant: rosemary extract.

What makes it processed

Culinary ingredients

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.

Category rules

Open Food Facts puts every product in this category in at least this group.

  • Salty snacks Products in the category "Salty snacks" are at least group 3.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 715 crackers (Appetizers)

From least to most processed, this one ranks 196th. 61% of the crackers (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 715 crackers (Appetizers), least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5949040203505, last edited 26 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.