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Is Harvest basket Skin on crispy fries ultra-processed?

750g Chips and fries Sold in the United Kingdom, Ireland and Germany

Pack of Harvest basket Skin on crispy fries

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:

  • 18 ingredients
  • 6 additives
  • Nutri-Score C

Less processed chips and fries

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

potatoes 87.4%, coating 7.3% (modified potato starch, rice flour, potato starch, salt, dextrin, raising agents (sodium carbonates), diphosphates, thickener (xanthan gum), dextrose, paprika extract, turmeric extract), sunflower oil låde typical values energy fat of which sa urates 5.3%, 170424260, carbohydra of which stars fibre crispy coating prepared with sunflower oil protein salt

Additives: E100 Curcumin , E1400 Dextrin , E160c Paprika extract , E415 Xanthan gum , E450 Diphosphates , E500 Sodium carbonates

As written on the pack

87,4% potatoes, 7,3 % coating (modified potato starch, rice flour, potato starch, salt, dextrin, raising agents: sodium carbonates, diphosphates, thickener: xanthan gum, dextrose, paprika extract, turmeric extract), 5,3% sunflower oil låde typical values energy fat of which sa urates - 170424260 - carbohydra of which stars fibre crispy coating prepared with sunflower oil protein salt

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.
  • E1400 Dextrin Dextrin is starch partly broken down by heat or acid, used as a thickener, binder and coating.
  • E160c Paprika extract Paprika extract is a red-orange colour extracted from paprika peppers.
  • E415 Xanthan gum Xanthan gum is a thickener made by fermenting sugar with the bacterium Xanthomonas campestris.
  • E450 Diphosphates Diphosphates are phosphate salts used as raising agents in baking powder, and to hold water in processed meats and cheese.
  • Thickener Thickeners, often gums or modified starches, make liquids more viscous so that a product feels richer than its ingredients alone would make it.
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  • 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.

  • 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.
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.

  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 1,586 chips and fries

From least to most processed, this one ranks 1498th. 65% of the chips and fries 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 1,586 chips and fries, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 4056489183686, last edited 25 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 C (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.