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Is Graze Sea Salt & Pepper Protein Nut Crunch ultra-processed?

28g Nuts Sold in the United Kingdom and France

Pack of Graze Sea Salt & Pepper Protein Nut Crunch

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:

  • 34 ingredients
  • 1 additive
  • Nutri-Score D

Less processed nuts

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

Salt, pepper broad beans, peas (broad beans, peas (green peas, corn starch, modified corn starch, sugar), sunflower oil, salt, pepper seasoning (potato starch, sea salt, sugar, black pepper, yeast extract, black pepper extract, flavouring, acid (citric acid), lemon juice)), black pepper cashews (cashew nuts, black pepper seasoning (sea salt, black pepper, rice flour, maltodextrin, sugar, lemon juice, natural flavouring), tapioca starch), edamame beans

Additives: E330 Citric acid

As written on the pack

Salt & pepper broad beans and peas (fried broad beans, roasted coated peas [green peas, corn starch, modified corn starch, sugar], sunflower oil, salt & pepper seasoning [potato starch, sea salt, sugar, black pepper, yeast extract, black pepper extract, flavouring, acid: citric acid, lemon juice powder]), black pepper cashews (cashew nuts [94%], black pepper seasoning [sea salt, black pepper, rice flour, maltodextrin, sugar, lemon juice powder, natural flavouring], tapioca starch), edamame beans (soya).

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.

  • Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.
  • Modified starch Modified starch is starch altered physically, with enzymes or chemically, so that it thickens, gels or survives freezing and heating better than ordinary starch.

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.

  • Maltodextrin Maltodextrin is a white powder made by partly breaking down starch.
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.

  • 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.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 613 nuts

From least to most processed, this one ranks 542nd. 30% of the nuts 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 613 nuts, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5055958700248, last edited 26 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 D (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.