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Is Nutisal Dry Roasted Cashew Nuts ultra-processed?

Cashew nuts Sold in Sweden

Pack of Nutisal Dry Roasted Cashew Nuts

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:

  • 16 ingredients
  • 2 additives

Less processed cashew nuts

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

Cashewnötter, kryddblandning (salt, vasslepulver, lök, mjölksocker, socker, jästextrakt, surhetsreglerande medel (e270, e296), persilja, arom, kryddextrakt (lök)), maltodextrin

Additives: E270 Lactic acid , E296 Malic acid

As written on the pack

Cashewnötter, kryddblandning (salt, vasslepulver (mjölk), lök, mjölksocker, socker, jästextrakt, surhetsreglerande medel (E270, E296), persilja, arom, kryddextrakt (lök)), maltodextrin.

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.

  • Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.

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.

  • Lactose Lactose is milk sugar, crystallised industrially from whey, a by-product of cheese making.
  • Maltodextrin Maltodextrin is a white powder made by partly breaking down starch.
  • Whey Whey is the liquid left over from cheese making, usually dried into a powder and used as a cheap source of milk solids, protein and lactose.
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.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 80 cashew nuts

From least to most processed, this one ranks 79th. 24% of the cashew nuts 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 80 cashew nuts, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 7310350122721, last edited 2 April 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.
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.