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Is KIRKLAND Signature Egg Bites ultra-processed?

21 oz Eggs and their products Sold in the United States

Pack of KIRKLAND Signature Egg 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:

  • 60 ingredients
  • 9 additives
  • Nutri-Score D

Less processed eggs and their products

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

Cottage Cheese (nonfat milk, milk, nonfat milk, contains less than 2% of (whey), salt, maltodextrin, carrageenan, mono- and diglycerides, locust bean gum, guar gum, natural flavors, vitamin A palmitate, carbon dioxide (to preserve freshness), enzyme), Eggs (eggs, water), Monterey Jack Cheese (milk, cheese culture, salt, enzymes, potato starch, natamycin (mold inhibitor)), Gouda Cheese, gouda cheese (milk, cheese culture, salt, enzymes, annatto (vegetable color)), powdered cellulose (to prevent caking), Uncured Bacon Pieces (pork, water, cane sugar, celery juice (celery juice, cultures, sea salt), cherry), Unsalted Butter (cream, natural flavors), Rice Starch, Corn Starch, Distilled White Vinegar (diluted with water to 4% acidity), Salt, Canola Oil, Hot Sauce (distilled vinegar, red pepper, salt)

Additives: E160b Annatto , E235 Natamycin , E290 Carbon dioxide , E407 Carrageenan , E410 Locust bean gum , E412 Guar gum , E460 Cellulose , E460ii Powdered cellulose , E471 Mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids

As written on the pack

Cottage Cheese (cultured nonfat milk, milk, nonfat milk, contains less than 2% of: whey, salt, maltodextrin, carrageenan, mono and diglycerides, locust bean gum, guar gum, natural flavors, vitamin A palmitate, carbon dioxide (to preserve freshness), enzyme), Eggs (eggs, water), Monterey Jack Cheese (pasteurized milk, cheese culture, salt, enzymes, potato starch, natamycin (mold inhibitor)), Gouda Cheese (gouda cheese (pasteurized milk, cheese culture, salt, enzymes, annatto (vegetable color)), powdered cellulose (to prevent caking)), Uncured Bacon Pieces (pork, water, cane sugar, cultured celery juice (celery juice, cultures, sea salt), cherry powder), Unsalted Butter (pasteurized cream, natural flavors), Rice Starch, Corn Starch, Distilled White Vinegar (diluted with water to 4% acidity), Salt, Canola Oil, Hot Sauce (distilled vinegar, red pepper, salt).

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.

  • E160b Annatto Colours are substances which add or restore colour in a food, and include natural constituents of foods and natural sources which are normally not consumed as foods as such and not normally used as characteristic ingredients of food.
  • E290 Carbon dioxide Preservatives are substances which prolong the shelf-life of foods by protecting them against deterioration caused by micro-organisms and/or which protect against growth of pathogenic micro-organisms.
  • E407 Carrageenan Carrageenan is a thickener and gelling agent extracted from red seaweed, used widely in dairy desserts, plant-based drinks and processed meats.
  • E410 Locust bean gum Locust bean gum (carob gum) is a thickener and stabiliser from the seeds of the carob tree.
  • E412 Guar gum Guar gum is a thickener ground from the seeds of the guar plant.
  • E460 Cellulose A food additive used to dissolve, dilute, disperse or otherwise physically modify a food additive or nutrient without altering its function -and without exerting any technological effect itself- in order to facilitate its handling, application or use of the food additive or nutrient.
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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.

  • 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.
8 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.

  • Meals Products in the category "Meals" are at least group 3.
  • Anti-caking agent Anti-caking agents are substances which reduce the tendency of individual particles of a foodstuff to adhere to one another.
  • Butter Butter, the fat churned from cream.
  • 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.
  • Cheese Cheese is milk preserved with salt, cultures and rennet.
  • Sauce A prepared sauce used as an ingredient.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 78 eggs and their products

From least to most processed, this one ranks 78th. 18% of the eggs and their products 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 78 eggs and their products, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0196633894939, last edited 15 August 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.