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Is Proper Katsu Curry Flavour Chickpea Chips ultra-processed?

Crisps Sold in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands

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:

  • 30 ingredients
  • 2 additives
  • Nutri-Score C

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

Chickpea flour 24%, rapeseed oil, potato starch, rice flour, Katsu Curry Flavour 8% (rice flour, spices (turmeric, smoked paprika, cumin, cayenne pepper, coriander seed, ginger, clove), sugar, onion, salt, garlic, yeast extract powder, tomato, acidity regulator (citric acid), natural flavouring, fenugreek leaf, colour (paprika extract)), potato fibre, corn flour, potassium chloride, salt

Additives: E160c Paprika extract , E330 Citric acid

As written on the pack

Chickpea flour (24%), rapeseed oil, potato starch, rice flour, Katsu Curry Flavour (8%) (rice flour, spices (turmeric, smoked paprika, cumin, cayenne pepper, coriander seed, ginger, clove), sugar, onion powder, salt, garlic powder, yeast extract powder, tomato powder, acidity regulator (citric acid), natural flavouring, fenugreek leaf, colour (paprika extract)), potato fibre, corn flour, potassium chloride, salt.

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.
  • Colour Colours are added to restore colour lost in processing or to make a product look more appealing.
  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 1,471 crisps

From least to most processed, this one ranks 1062nd. 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 5060283762960, last edited 7 May 2026), available under the Open Database License. If something is wrong or the recipe has changed, you can correct it there.
  • 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.