Is Garden Veggie Straws Cheddar Cheese ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- 37 ingredients
- 2 additives
- Nutri-Score E
Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
Veggie straws, potato starch (processing marker), potato flour, corn starch (processing marker), tomato paste, spinach powder, salt (processing marker), potassium chloride, sugar (processing marker), turmeric, beetroot powder (color (ultra-processing marker)), canola oil, safflower oil (processing marker), sunflower oil (processing marker), seasoning (whey (ultra-processing marker), salt (processing marker), cheddar cheese (processing marker) (milk, cultures, salt (processing marker), enzymes), buttermilk solids, onion, sour cream (cream, nonfat milk, cultures), natural flavors (ultra-processing marker), butter (processing marker), yeast extract, lactic acid, citric acid, paprika, garlic, turmeric)
Additives: E270 Lactic acid , E330 Citric acid
As written on the pack
Veggie straws (potato starch, potato flour, corn starch, tomato paste, spinach powder, salt, potassium chloride, sugar, turmeric, beetroot powder [color], canola oil and/or safflower oil and/or sunflower oil, seasoning (whey, salt, cheddar cheese [pasteurized milk, cultures, salt, enzymes], buttermilk solids, onion powder, sour cream [cream, nonfat milk, cultures], natural flavors, butter, yeast extract, lactic acid, citric acid, extractives of paprika, garlic powder, extractives of turmeric).
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.
- 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.
- Whey Whey is the liquid left over from cheese making, usually dried into a powder and used as a cheap source of milk solids, protein and lactose.
6 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.
- Butter Butter, the fat churned from cream.
- 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.
- Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.
- Cheese Cheese is milk preserved with salt, cultures and rennet.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0829515321604, last edited 29 April 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.