Is Lance Captain's Wafers sandwich crackers Cream Cheese & Chives ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- 35 ingredients
- 9 additives
- Nutri-Score E
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Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
flour (wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), vegetable oil (processing marker) (contains one and more of the following (palm oil), soybean oil, canola oil, corn oil), sugar (processing marker), deproteinized dairy whey, buttermilk, corn syrup (ultra-processing marker), solids, sodium bicarbonate, ammonium bicarbonate, monocalcium phosphate, salt (processing marker), corn syrup (ultra-processing marker), cream cheese (processing marker) (pasteurized milk and cream, cheese cultures, salt (processing marker), carob bean gum (ultra-processing marker)), sodium caseinate, nonfat dry milk (processing marker), chives, parsley, soy lecithin (ultra-processing marker) (emulsifier (ultra-processing marker)), natural and artificial flavor (ultra-processing marker)
Additives: E322 Lecithins , E322i Lecithin , E341 Calcium phosphates , E341i Monocalcium phosphate , E410 Locust bean gum , E500 Sodium carbonates , E500ii Sodium hydrogen carbonate , E503 Ammonium carbonates , E503ii Ammonium hydrogen carbonate
As written on the pack
Enriched flour (wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), vegetable oil (contains one or more of the following: palm oil, soybean oil, canola oil, corn oil), sugar, deproteinized dairy whey, buttermilk, corn syrup, solids, leavening (sodium bicarbonate, ammonium bicarbonate, monocalcium phosphate), salt, corn syrup, cream cheese (pasteurized milk and cream, cheese cultures, salt, carob bean gum), sodium caseinate, nonfat dry milk, chives, parsley, soy lecithin (emulsifier), natural and artificial flavor.
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.
- E322 Lecithins Lecithins are fatty substances extracted mostly from soybeans, sunflower seeds or eggs, used as emulsifiers to keep fat and water mixed, for example in chocolate.
- E410 Locust bean gum Locust bean gum (carob gum) is a thickener and stabiliser from the seeds of the carob tree.
- Emulsifier Emulsifiers keep fat and water from separating, giving products a smooth, stable texture over a long shelf life.
- 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.
- Glucose Glucose, usually listed as glucose syrup, is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
7 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.
- Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
- Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.
- Sweet snacks Products in the category "Sweet snacks" are at least group 3.
- Cheese Cheese is milk preserved with salt, cultures and rennet.
- Milk powder Milk powder is milk with the water evaporated off: a preserved form of a whole food rather than an industrial extract.
Among 715 crackers (Appetizers)
From least to most processed, this one ranks 649th. 61% of the crackers (Appetizers) here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0076410901855, 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.