Is Hippeas chickpea puffs groovy white cheddar flavored ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- 14 ingredients
- 3 additives
Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
Chickpea flour, rice flour, sunflower oil (processing marker), yellow pea, maltodextrin (ultra-processing marker), salt (processing marker), sugar (processing marker), natural flavor (ultra-processing marker), yeast extract, onion powder, garlic powder, citric acid, turmeric extract (ultra-processing marker), rosemary extract
Additives: E100 Curcumin , E330 Citric acid , E392 Extracts of rosemary
As written on the pack
Chickpea flour, rice flour, sunflower oil, yellow pea flour, maltodextrin, salt, sugar, natural flavor, yeast extract, onion powder, garlic powder, citric acid, turmeric extract, rosemary extract
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.
- 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.
- Maltodextrin Maltodextrin is a white powder made by partly breaking down starch.
3 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.
- Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
- Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0810122080015, last edited 28 September 2026), available under the Open Database License. If something is wrong or the recipe has changed, you can correct it there.
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- The NOVA group is an automated estimate from crowdsourced data: a missing or mistyped ingredient can change it.
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