Is Insane Grain Striking Hot Baked Knobbly Sticks ultra-processed?

80g Appetizers Sold in the United Kingdom and France

Yes, it's ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

Dextrose
Glucose

14 ingredients
2 additives
Nutri-Score C

Less processed appetizers

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

Sorghum flour 35%, corn flour 35%, vegetable oils (processing marker) (corn, linseed), strikin' hot flavouring preparation (dextrose (ultra-processing marker), onion, sugar (processing marker), paprika, chilli, acidity regulator (sodium diacetate)), Bacillus Coagulans

Additives: E262 Sodium acetates , E262ii Sodium diacetate

As written on the pack

Sorghum flour (35%), corn flour (35%), vegetable oils (corn, linseed), strikin' hot flavouring preparation (dextrose, onion, sugar, paprika, chilli, acidity regulator (sodium diacetate)), Bacillus Coagulans.

What makes it ultra-processed

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.

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.

Salty snacks Products in the category "Salty snacks" are at least group 3.
Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 2,497 appetizers

From least to most processed, this one ranks 1437th. 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 2,497 appetizers, least processed first

About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5060619250154, last edited 26 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.