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Is Popchips barbeque flavour popped potato snacks ultra-processed?

85 g Puffed salty snacks made from potato Sold in the United Kingdom and France

Pack of Popchips barbeque flavour popped potato snacks

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:

  • 36 ingredients
  • 3 additives
  • Nutri-Score C

Less processed puffed salty snacks made from potato

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, Rice Flour, Sunflower Oil, Barbeque Flavour (Sugar, Yeast, Potassium Chloride, Dried Onion, Natural Flavourings, Dried Garlic, Spices (Smoked Paprika, Red Chilli Pepper), Salt, Dried Tomato, Dextrose, Citric Acid, Sea Salt, Paprika Extract, Rosemary Extract), Potato Starch, Salt, fancy a chip chat? Tel (Freephone, 193, Mon), Fri 9am, 5pm) Republic of Ireland 1800 551755 Mail (FREEPOST KP SNACKS ROI Mail), KP Snacks Limited, P.O, Box No, Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire, le65 2uq, UK O Registered Trade Mark

Additives: E160c Paprika extract , E330 Citric acid , E392 Extracts of rosemary

As written on the pack

Dried Potato, Rice Flour, Sunflower Oil, Barbeque Flavour [Sugar, Dried Yeast, Potassium Chloride, Dried Onion, Natural Flavourings, Dried Garlic, Ground Spices (Smoked Paprika, Red Chilli Pepper), Salt, Dried Tomato, Dextrose, Acid: Citric Acid, Smoked Sea Salt, Colour: Paprika Extract, Antioxidant Rosemary Extract], Potato Starch, Salt. fancy a chip chat? Tel: Freephone (UK) 0800 0196 193 (Mon - Fri 9am - 5pm) Republic of Ireland 1800 551755 Mail: FREEPOST KP SNACKS ROI Mail: KP Snacks Limited, P.O. Box No. 4 Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire, LE65 2UQ, UK O Registered Trade Mark

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.

  • E160c Paprika extract Paprika extract is a red-orange colour extracted from paprika peppers.
  • 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.

  • Dextrose Dextrose is pure glucose crystallised from starch-derived syrup.
  • Glucose Glucose, usually listed as glucose syrup, is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
5 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.
  • 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

Among 28 puffed salty snacks made from potato

From least to most processed, this one ranks 22nd. 86% of the puffed salty snacks made from potato 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 28 puffed salty snacks made from potato, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5060292308203, last edited 15 September 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 C (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.