Is Honey butter chips ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- 27 ingredients
- 4 additives
- Nutri-Score E
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Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
potato, honey butter flavor seasoning (licorice extract, malic acid, citric acid, gourmet butter, disodium 5'-ribonucleotide (ultra-processing marker), acacia honey (processing marker), parsley, lactic acid, dairy mouthfee block (whey powder (ultra-processing marker), butter oil, alpha tocopherol), potassium chloride, soy sauce (processing marker), silicon dioxide, butter cream powder, whey powder hvp-b (soybean protein), yeast extract power ye3, butter (processing marker), skim milk powder salt, white sugar (processing marker), crystalline fructose), palm oil, sunflower oil (processing marker)
Additives: E296 Malic acid , E307 Alpha-tocopherol , E330 Citric acid , E635 Disodium 5'-ribonucleotide
As written on the pack
potato, honey butter flavor seasoning[licorice extract, malic acid, citric acid, gourmet butter, disodium 5'-ribonucleotide, acacia honey powder, parsley flakes, lactic acid powder, dairy mouthfee block(whey powder, butter oil, alpha tocopherol), potassium chloride, soy sauce powder, silicon dioxide, butter cream powder, whey powder hvp-b(soybean protein), yeast extract power ye3, butter powder, skim milk powder salt, white sugar, crystalline fructose], palm oil, sunflower oil
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.
- E635 Disodium 5'-ribonucleotide A food additive authorised for industrial food production.
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.
- Whey Whey is the liquid left over from cheese making, usually dried into a powder and used as a cheap source of milk solids, protein and lactose.
6 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.
- Butter Butter, the fat churned from cream.
- Honey Honey, used as a sweetener.
- Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
- Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.
- Sauce A prepared sauce used as an ingredient.
Among 1,471 crisps
From least to most processed, this one ranks 865th. 64% of the crisps here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 8801019606540, last edited 14 January 2023), 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 E (from A, best, to E).
- General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.