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Is Lidl Peanut butter popcorn - Crownfireld ultra-processed?

Sold in the United Kingdom and Germany

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:

  • 27 ingredients
  • 3 additives
  • Nutri-Score D

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Fructooligosaccharides, Crispy Cereals (Wheat Flour, Rice Flour, Dextrose, Sugar, Salt), Peanuts 13%, Popcorn 9% (Maize, Sunflower Oil), Glucose Syrup, Oat Flakes, Sugar, Vegetable Fats (Palm, Palm Kernel), Peanut Paste 2.5%, Whole Milk Powder, Stabiliser (Sorbitols), Sunflower Oil, Salt, Emulsifier (Soya Lecithins), Antioxidant (Tocopherol-Rich Extract)

Additives: E306 Tocopherol-rich extract , E322 Lecithins , E420 Sorbitol

As written on the pack

Fructooligosaccharides, Crispy Cereals (Wheat Flour, Rice Flour, Dextrose, Sugar, Salt), 13% Peanuts, 9% Popcorn (Maize, Sunflower Oil), Glucose Syrup, Oat Flakes, Sugar, Vegetable Fats (Palm, Palm Kernel), 2.5% Peanut Paste, Whole Milk Powder, Stabiliser: Sorbitols; Sunflower Oil, Salt, Emulsifier: Soya Lecithins; Antioxidant: Tocopherol-Rich Extract.

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.
  • E420 Sorbitol Sorbitol is a sugar alcohol used as a sweetener and to keep products moist.
  • Emulsifier Emulsifiers keep fat and water from separating, giving products a smooth, stable texture over a long shelf life.
  • Sweetener Sweeteners give sweetness with few or no calories, many at hundreds of times the strength of sugar.

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.
  • Glucose syrup Glucose syrup is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
5 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 fat Vegetable fats are oils that are solid at room temperature, such as palm or coconut fat.
  • Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.
  • Milk powder Milk powder is milk with the water evaporated off: a preserved form of a whole food rather than an industrial extract.

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About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 4056489746607, last edited 26 March 2026), available under the Open Database License. If something is wrong or the recipe has changed, you can correct it there.
  • 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.