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Is Marks & Spencer Chilli Coated Peanuts ultra-processed?

Peanuts Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Marks & Spencer Chilli Coated Peanuts

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:

  • 22 ingredients
  • 4 additives
  • Nutri-Score E

Less processed peanuts

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

Peanuts 42%, Rapeseed Oil, Potato Starch, Modified Maize Starch, Cornflour, Sugar, Rice Flour, Salt, Modified Tapioca Starch, Wheat Starch, Dried Onions, Dried Garlic, Acacia Gum, Cumin, Chilli, Yeast, Paprika, Paprika Extract, Curcumin, Dried Lemon Juice, Flavouring, Citric Acid

Additives: E100 Curcumin , E160c Paprika extract , E330 Citric acid , E414 Acacia gum

As written on the pack

Peanuts (42%). Rapeseed Oil, Potato Starch, Modified Maize Starch, Cornflour, Sugar, Rice Flour, Salt, Modified Tapioca Starch, Wheat Starch (contains Gluten), Dried Onions, Dried Garlic, Thickener: Acacia Gum, Dried Cumin, Chilli Powder, Dried Yeast Extract, Dried Paprika, Colour: Paprika Extract, Curcumin, Dried Lemon Juice, Flavouring, Acidity Regulator: Citric Acid.

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.

  • E100 Curcumin 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.
  • E160c Paprika extract Paprika extract is a red-orange colour extracted from paprika peppers.
  • E414 Acacia gum Gum arabic (acacia gum) is the hardened sap of acacia trees, used to stabilise flavour emulsions in soft drinks and to coat sweets.
  • Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.
  • Modified starch Modified starch is starch altered physically, with enzymes or chemically, so that it thickens, gels or survives freezing and heating better than ordinary starch.
3 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.
  • Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 162 peanuts

From least to most processed, this one ranks 147th. 50% of the peanuts 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 162 peanuts, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 00727488, last edited 5 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.