Is Lance Toast Chee Peanut Butter Sandwich Crackers ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- 27 ingredients
- 9 additives
- Nutri-Score E
Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid, peanut butter, roasted peanuts, vegetable oils (processing marker), soybean oil (processing marker), palm oil, canola oil, dextrose (ultra-processing marker), sugar (processing marker), salt (processing marker), corn syrup (ultra-processing marker), leavening, monocalcium phosphate, sodium bicarbonate, ammonium bicarbonate, cheddar cheese (processing marker), milk, cultures, enzymes, yellow 6 (ultra-processing marker), soy lecithin (ultra-processing marker), whey (ultra-processing marker)
Additives: E110 Sunset yellow FCF , E322 Lecithins , E322i Lecithin , E341 Calcium phosphates , E341i Monocalcium phosphate , E500 Sodium carbonates , E500ii Sodium hydrogen carbonate , E503 Ammonium carbonates , E503ii Ammonium hydrogen carbonate
As written on the pack
enriched flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid, peanut butter, roasted peanuts, vegetable oils, soybean oil, palm oil, canola oil, dextrose, sugar, salt, corn syrup, leavening, monocalcium phosphate, sodium bicarbonate, ammonium bicarbonate, cheddar cheese, milk, cultures, enzymes, yellow 6, soy lecithin, whey
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.
- E110 Sunset yellow FCF Sunset yellow FCF is a synthetic orange azo dye (FD&C Yellow No. 6 in the US).
- 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.
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.
- 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.
4 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.
- Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
- Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.
- Cheese Cheese is milk preserved with salt, cultures and rennet.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0076410906102, last edited 22 April 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.