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Is Funyuns Onion Flavored Rings ultra-processed?

Puffed salty snacks Sold in the United States

Pack of Funyuns Onion Flavored Rings

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:

  • 22 ingredients
  • 1 additive
  • Nutri-Score E

Less processed puffed salty snacks

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

enriched corn meal n meal ferrous sulfate, niacin, thiami ngnte te riboflavin, folic acid, vegetbleil, sunflower, corn, and cana onsat, and less than 2% of the fllowinc co starch, sugar, corn f, cerm, k, maltodextrin, made from jo ononfowder, monosodium glutamate eorized corn protein, dextrose, gaf flavors, and gum arabic, ingredien ts, nn pouder, natural

Additives: E414 Acacia gum

As written on the pack

enriched corn meal n meal ferrous sulfate, niacin, thiami ngnte te riboflavin, folic acid), vegetbleil (sunflower, corn, and/or cana onsat, and less than 2% of the fllowinc co starch, sugar, corn f ,cerm/k, maltodextrin (made from jo ononfowder, monosodium glutamate eorized corn protein, dextrose, gaf flavors, and gum arabic, contains milk ingredien ts, nn pouder, natural

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.

  • E414 Acacia gum Gum arabic (acacia gum) is the hardened sap of acacia trees, used to stabilise flavour emulsions in soft drinks and to coat sweets.

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.
  • Maltodextrin Maltodextrin is a white powder made by partly breaking down starch.
2 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.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 90 puffed salty snacks

From least to most processed, this one ranks 53rd. 77% of the puffed salty snacks 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 90 puffed salty snacks, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0028400000666, last edited 22 May 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.