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Is Off The Eaten Path Sour Cream & Black Pepper Flavour Pea & Bean Sticks ultra-processed?

100g Crisps Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Off The Eaten Path Sour Cream & Black Pepper Flavour Pea & Bean Sticks

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:

  • 19 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score D

Less processed crisps

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 13%, green pea 13%, sour cream, black pepper seasoning (onion, sour cream, black pepper, salt, lactose (from milk), milkprotein, natural flavourings), salt, potassium chloride, beetroot powder, spinach powder

As written on the pack

POTATO STARCH, SUNFLOWER OIL, WHITE BEAN FLOUR (14%), PINTO BEAN FLOUR (13%), GREEN PEA FLOUR (13%), SOUR CREAM AND BLACK PEPPER SEASONING [ONION POWDER, SOUR CREAM POWDER (CONTAINS MILK), BLACK PEPPER POWDER, SALT, LACTOSE (FROM MILK), MILKPROTEIN, NATURAL FLAVOURINGS], SALT, POTASSIUM CHLORIDE, BEETROOT POWDER, SPINACH POWDER.

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.
4 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.
  • Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.
  • Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 1,471 crisps

From least to most processed, this one ranks 717th. 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 5000328020853, 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.