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Is Kernel Season's Llc Popcorn seasoning white cheddar ultra-processed?

80 g Food additives Sold in the United States

Pack of Kernel Season's Llc Popcorn seasoning white cheddar

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:

  • 21 ingredients
  • 4 additives

Less processed food additives

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

Cheddar cheese (milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes), maltodextrin, whey, soybean oil, lactose, citric acid, lactic acid, salt, whey, buttermilk solids, dextrose, hydrolyzed corn protein, disodium inosinate, disodium guanylate, onion, garlic, silicon dioxide

Additives: E270 Lactic acid , E330 Citric acid , E627 Disodium guanylate , E631 Disodium inosinate

As written on the pack

Cheddar cheese [milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes], maltodextrin, whey, soybean oil, lactose, citric acid, lactic acid), salt, whey, buttermilk solids, dextrose, hydrolyzed corn protein, disodium inosinate, disodium guanylate, onion and garlic. silicon dioxide.

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.

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.
  • Lactose Lactose is milk sugar, crystallised industrially from whey, a by-product of cheese making.
  • Maltodextrin Maltodextrin is a white powder made by partly breaking down starch.
  • 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.
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.
  • Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.
  • Cheese Cheese is milk preserved with salt, cultures and rennet.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 135 food additives

From least to most processed, this one ranks 131st. 68% of the food additives 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 135 food additives, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0670171112330, last edited 9 September 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.
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.