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Is Hippeas salt and vinegar ultra-processed?

Crisps Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Hippeas salt and vinegar

It's processed, but not ultra-processed

  1. 1 Unprocessed
  2. 2 Kitchen staple
  3. 3 Processed
  4. 4 Ultra-processed

Whole foods combined with:

  • 18 ingredients
  • 2 additives
  • Nutri-Score D

Less processed crisps

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

Chickpea Flour 39%, Quinoa, Tapioca Flour, Sunflower Oil, Salt 10%, Vinegar Seasoning 10% (Brandy Vinegar Extract, Sugar, Rice Flour, Acid (Citric Acid), Sea Salt, Potassium Chloride (Salt Replacement), Sunflower Oil, Antioxidant (Rosemary Extract)), Brown Rice Protein

Additives: E330 Citric acid , E392 Extracts of rosemary

As written on the pack

Chickpea Flour (39%), Quinoa, Tapioca Flour, Sunflower Oil, Salt and Vinegar Seasoning (10%) (Brandy Vinegar Extract, Sugar, Rice Flour, Acid: Citric Acid, Sea Salt, Potassium Chloride [Salt Replacement], Sunflower Oil, Antioxidant: Rosemary Extract), Brown Rice Protein.

What makes it processed

Culinary ingredients

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.

Category rules

Open Food Facts puts every product in this category in at least this group.

  • Salty snacks Products in the category "Salty snacks" are at least group 3.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 1,471 crisps

From least to most processed, this one ranks 505th. 64% of the crisps 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 1,471 crisps, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5060472692016, last edited 27 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 D (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.