Is Goldfish Colors Cheddar ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- 31 ingredients
- 6 additives
- Nutri-Score D
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Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
Enriched wheat flour (flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), vegetable oil (processing marker) (canola, soybean, sunflower), cheddar cheese (processing marker) (cultured milk, salt (processing marker), enzymes, annatto (ultra-processing marker)), salt (processing marker), yeast, sugar (processing marker), autolyzed yeast extract, spices, celery, onion powder, monocalcium phosphate, baking soda, colors (ultra-processing marker) (beet, huito, watermelon, paprika, turmeric extracts (ultra-processing marker))
Additives: E100 Curcumin , E160b Annatto , E341 Calcium phosphates , E341i Monocalcium phosphate , E500 Sodium carbonates , E500ii Sodium hydrogen carbonate
As written on the pack
Enriched wheat flour (flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), vegetable oil (canola, soybean and/or sunflower), cheddar cheese (cultured milk, salt, enzymes, annatto), salt, yeast, sugar, autolyzed yeast extract, spices, celery, onion powder, monocalcium phosphate, baking soda, colors (beet, huito and watermelon juice concentrates, paprika, turmeric extracts).
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.
- E100 Curcumin Colours are substances which add or restore colour in a food, and include natural constituents of foods and natural sources which are normally not consumed as foods as such and not normally used as characteristic ingredients of food.
- E160b Annatto Colours are substances which add or restore colour in a food, and include natural constituents of foods and natural sources which are normally not consumed as foods as such and not normally used as characteristic ingredients of food.
- Colour Colours are added to restore colour lost in processing or to make a product look more appealing.
5 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.
- 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.
Among 16 small Crackers
From least to most processed, this one ranks 13th. 63% of the small Crackers here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0014100054689, last edited 2 August 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.