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Is Off the Eaten Path Chickpea Veggie Crisps Made With Real Purple Sweet Potatoes ultra-processed?

19 oz Sold in the United States and French Polynesia

Pack of Off the Eaten Path Chickpea Veggie Crisps Made With Real Purple Sweet Potatoes

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:

  • 14 ingredients
  • 2 additives
  • Nutri-Score C

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

rice flour, chickpea flour, green peas, sunflower oil, black beans, purple sweet potato, cane sugar, sea salt, calcium lactate, salt, vegetable juice (color), and mixed tocopherols (antioxidant)

Additives: E306 Tocopherol-rich extract , E327 Calcium lactate

As written on the pack

rice flour, chickpea flour, dried green peas, sunflower oil, dried black beans, dried purple sweet potato, cane sugar, sea salt, calcium lactate, salt, vegetable juice (color), and mixed tocopherols (antioxidant).

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.

  • E327 Calcium lactate Thickeners are substances which increase the viscosity of a foodstuff.
  • 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.

  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
  • Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.

How the NOVA groups work

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0028400173315, last edited 30 June 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 C (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.