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Is Off The Eaten Path Sea Salt flavour pea and bean sticks ultra-processed?

100 g Puffed salty snacks Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Off The Eaten Path Sea Salt flavour pea and bean sticks

It's processed, but not ultra-processed

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

Whole foods combined with:

  • 10 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score D

Less processed appetizers

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

potato starch, sunflower oil, white bean 14%, pinto bean 14%, green pea 14%, salt, potassium chloride, sea salt, beetroot powder, spinach powder

As written on the pack

POTATO STARCH, SUNFLOWER OIL, WHITE BEAN FLOUR (14%), PINTO BEAN FLOUR (14%), GREEN PEA FLOUR (14%), SALT, POTASSIUM CHLORIDE, SEA SALT, BEETROOT POWDER, SPINACH POWDER.

What makes it processed

Culinary ingredients

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.
  • Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.
  • Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.

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 90 puffed salty snacks

From least to most processed, this one ranks 14th. 77% of the puffed salty snacks 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 90 puffed salty snacks, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5000328020822, last edited 27 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 D (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.