Is Mrs. Cubbison's Cheddar Crisps ultra-processed?

1.98 oz Crisps Sold in the United States

Yes, it's ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

Colour
E160b Annatto

8 ingredients
1 additive
Nutri-Score A

Less processed crisps

Veggie Straws Made With Avocado Oil From the Ground Up 11 ingredients · no additives NOVA group 2
Tortilla Pops Finement Salé N.a ! Nature Addicts 10 ingredients · no additives NOVA group 3
Organic Tortilla Chips Kirkland Signature 5 ingredients · no additives NOVA group 3
Sweet Potato Chips Sea Salt Jackson's 3 ingredients · no additives NOVA group 3

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

Cheddar cheese (processing marker) (milk, cheese cultures, salt (processing marker), enzymes, annatto (ultra-processing marker) (color (ultra-processing marker)), vitamin a palmitate)

Additives: E160b Annatto

As written on the pack

Cheddar cheese (pasteurized milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes, annatto [color], vitamin a palmitate).

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.

E160b Annatto 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.
Colour Colours are added to restore colour lost in processing or to make a product look more appealing.

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.

Salty snacks Products in the category "Salty snacks" are at least group 3.
Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
Cheese Cheese is milk preserved with salt, cultures and rennet.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 1,471 crisps

From least to most processed, this one ranks 721st. 64% of the 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 1,471 crisps, least processed first

About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0074714088463, last edited 30 August 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 A (from A, best, to E).
General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.