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Is Kurkure Chilli Chatka ultra-processed?

78.9 Crisps Sold in the United Kingdom, India and Spain

Pack of Kurkure Chilli Chatka

It's processed, but not ultra-processed

  1. 1 Unprocessed
  2. 2 Kitchen staple
  3. 3 Processed
  4. 4 Ultra-processed

Whole foods combined with:

  • 20 ingredients
  • 1 additive
  • Nutri-Score E

Less processed crisps

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

Rice meal 43.2%, edible vegetable oil (palmolein oil), corn meal 20%, gram meal 3.3%, spices, condiments (chilli, onion powder, fennel, ajwain powder, cumin, garlic powder, coriander, black pepper powder, spice extract, fenugreek), sugar, salt, citric acid

Additives: E330 Citric acid

As written on the pack

Rice meal (43.2%), edible vegetable oil (palmolein oil), corn meal (20.0%), gram meal (3.3%), spices and condiments (chilli powder, onion powder, fennel powder, ajwain powder, cumin powder, garlic powder, coriander powder, black pepper powder, spice extract, fenugreek powder), sugar, salt, citric acid (330).

What makes it processed

Culinary ingredients

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.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
  • Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.

Category rules

Open Food Facts puts every product in this category in at least this group.

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

How the NOVA groups work

Among 1,471 crisps

From least to most processed, this one ranks 488th. 64% of the crisps 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 1,471 crisps, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 8901491100533, last edited 22 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.
  • 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.