Is Popworks Sour Cream & Onion popped crisps ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- 24 ingredients
- 1 additive
- Nutri-Score C
Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
corn 80%, sunflower oil (processing marker), sour cream, onion seasoning (sweet whey powder (from milk), salt (processing marker), sugar (processing marker), onion, flavourings (ultra-processing marker), parsley, skimmed milk powder (processing marker), acid (citric acid), black pepper), pea fibre (ultra-processing marker), satisfied, tell us why by contacting us on (www.popworks-snacks.com www.mer care), po box 23, leicester, le4 8zu, uk, f00408 lines open weekdays 9am-5pm ting us
Additives: E330 Citric acid
As written on the pack
corn (80%), sunflower oil, sour cream & onion seasoning [sweet whey powder (from milk), salt, sugar, onion powder, flavourings (contains milk), dried parsley, skimmed milk powder, acid (citric acid), ground black pepper], pea fibre. satisfied, tell us why by contacting us on: www.popworks-snacks.com www.mer care, po box 23, leicester, le4 8zu, uk. f00408 lines open weekdays 9am-5pm ting us.
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.
- 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.
- Vegetable fiber Isolated plant fibres, such as inulin, oat fibre or bamboo fibre, are extracted industrially and added to change texture or support "source of fibre" claims.
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.
- 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.
- Milk powder Milk powder is milk with the water evaporated off: a preserved form of a whole food rather than an industrial extract.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5000328015705, 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 C (from A, best, to E).
- General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.