Is New Primal Snack Mates Chicken & Apple Mini Sticks ultra-processed?

28 g Dried meats Sold in the United States

It's processed, but not ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Whole foods combined with:

Honey
Maple syrup
Salt

16 ingredients
1 additive
Nutri-Score E

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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

All-natural chicken raised without added hormones and antibiotics, dried apples, honey (processing marker), sea salt (processing marker), maple syrup (processing marker), encapsulated citric acid, celery powder (celery powder, sea salt (processing marker)), black pepper, cherry, allspice, ginger, coriander, nutmeg, beef collagen casing

Additives: E330 Citric acid

As written on the pack

All-natural chicken raised without added hormones or antibiotics, dried apples, honey, sea salt, maple syrup, encapsulated citric acid, cultured celery powder (celery powder, sea salt), black pepper, cherry powder, allspice, ginger, coriander, nutmeg, beef collagen casing.

What makes it processed

Culinary ingredients

Kitchen staples like sugar, salt and oil. On their own they make a food processed, not ultra-processed.

Honey Honey, used as a sweetener.
Maple syrup An ingredient mostly produced industrially and rarely used in home kitchens.
Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.

Category rules

Open Food Facts puts every product in this category in at least this group.

Prepared meats Products in the category "Prepared meats" are at least group 3.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 47 dried meats

From least to most processed, this one ranks 16th. 51% of the dried meats 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 47 dried meats, least processed first

About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0850000398580, last edited 17 November 2025), 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.