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Is Marks & Spencer Salt & vinegar chiplets ultra-processed?

100 g Potato crisps Sold in the United Kingdom and France

Pack of Marks & Spencer Salt & vinegar chiplets

It's processed, but not ultra-processed

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

Open Food Facts counts every product in its category, salty snacks, as at least group 3.

  • 6 ingredients
  • 2 additives
  • 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

potatoes 36%, corn grits 36%, sunflower oil salt maltodextrin, dried barley malt vinegar sugar citric acid, malic acid, tartaric acid dried yeast extract

Additives: E296 Malic acid , E330 Citric acid

As written on the pack

dried potatoes (36%). corn grits (36%) sunflower oil salt maltodextrin. dried barley malt vinegar sugar citric acid, malic acid, tartaric acid dried yeast extract

What makes it processed

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.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 622 potato crisps

From least to most processed, this one ranks 194th. 66% of the potato 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 622 potato crisps, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 00762724, last edited 24 March 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.