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Is Pringles Hot Ones Barbacoa Chips ultra-processed?

Crisps Sold in the United States

Pack of Pringles Hot Ones Barbacoa Chips

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:

  • 28 ingredients
  • 8 additives
  • Nutri-Score E

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

potatoes, vegetable oil (corn, cottonseed, high oleic soybean, and SUNFLOWER), degerminated yellow corn flour, cornstarch, rice flour, maltodextrin, mono- and DIGLYCERIDES, CONTAINS 2% and LESS OF SALT, sugar, spices, monosodium glutamate sodium diacetate, onion, citric acid, garlic, corn syrup solids, hydrolyzed corn protein, red 40 lake, lime juice disodium inosinate, disodium guanylate, NATURAL and ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, whey, wheat starch, blue 1 lake, ingredients

Additives: E129 Allura red , E133 Brilliant blue FCF , E262 Sodium acetates , E262ii Sodium diacetate , E330 Citric acid , E471 Mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids , E627 Disodium guanylate , E631 Disodium inosinate

Also detected, but not matched to one ingredient: E631 Disodium inosinate.

As written on the pack

DRIED POTATOES, VEGETABLE OIL (CORN, COTTONSEED, HIGH OLEIC SOYBEAN, AND/OR SUNFLOWER), DEGERMINATED YELLOW CORN FLOUR, CORNSTARCH, RICE FLOUR, MALTODEXTRIN, MONO - AND DIGLYCERIDES. CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF SALT, SUGAR, SPICES, MONOSODIUM GLUTAMATE SODIUM DIACETATE, ONION POWDER, CITRIC ACID, GARLIC POWDER, CORN SYRUP SOLIDS, HYDROLYZED CORN PROTEIN, RED 40 LAKE, LIME JUICE DISODIUM INOSINATE, DISODIUM GUANYLATE, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, WHEY, WHEAT STARCH, BLUE 1 LAKE. CONTAINS MILK AND WHEAT INGREDIENTS.

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.

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.

  • Maltodextrin Maltodextrin is a white powder made by partly breaking down starch.
  • 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.
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.
  • 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 1,471 crisps

From least to most processed, this one ranks 1371st. 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 0038000293108, last edited 28 October 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 E (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.