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Is Hummus bites ultra-processed?

Appetizers Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Hummus bites

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:

  • 25 ingredients
  • 2 additives
  • Nutri-Score D

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Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

chickpea flour 24%, rice flour, potato starch, rapeseed oil, tomato, basil seasoning (rice flour, sugar, dextrose, salt, tomato, yeast extract powder, onion, garlic, acid (citric acid), dried basil, parsley, flavouring, cayenne pepper, colour (paprika extract)), cornflour, salt, egov

Additives: E160c Paprika extract , E330 Citric acid

As written on the pack

chickpea flour (24%), rice flour, potato starch, rapeseed oil, tomato and basil seasoning (rice flour, sugar, dextrose, salt, tomato powder, yeast extract powder, onion powder, garlic powder, acid: citric acid, dried basil, dried parsley, flavouring, cayenne pepper, colour: paprika extract), cornflour, salt, dietary advice: suitable for vegetarians and vegans, egov

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.

  • E160c Paprika extract Paprika extract is a red-orange colour extracted from paprika peppers.
  • Colour Colours are added to restore colour lost in processing or to make a product look more appealing.
  • 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.

  • 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.
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.

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

How the NOVA groups work

Among 2,498 appetizers

From least to most processed, this one ranks 2037th. 64% of the appetizers 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 2,498 appetizers, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 4088600123370, 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.