Is Quaker Caramel rice 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:
- 20 ingredients
- 4 additives
- Nutri-Score D
Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
brown rice, sugar (processing marker), corn grits, corn maltodextrin (ultra-processing marker), sweetened condensed milk (milk, sugar (processing marker)), whey (ultra-processing marker), salt (processing marker), natural flavor (ultra-processing marker), vegetable oil (processing marker) (canola, sunflower oil), cooked white juice concentrate (color (ultra-processing marker)), soy lecithin (ultra-processing marker), rebaudioside stevia leaf extract, tocopherols (to preserve freshness), spices
Additives: E306 Tocopherol-rich extract , E322 Lecithins , E322i Lecithin , E960 Steviol glycosides
As written on the pack
whole grain brown rice, sugar, corn grits, corn maltodextrin, sweetened condensed milk (milk, sugar), whey, salt, natural flavor, vegetable oil (canola and/or sunflower oil), cooked white juice concentrate (color), soy lecithin, rebaudioside stevia leaf extract, tocopherols (to preserve freshness), spices
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.
- E322 Lecithins Lecithins are fatty substances extracted mostly from soybeans, sunflower seeds or eggs, used as emulsifiers to keep fat and water mixed, for example in chocolate.
- E960 Steviol glycosides Steviol glycosides are sweet compounds extracted and purified from the leaves of the stevia plant.
- 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.
- 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.
3 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.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0030000433812, last edited 26 June 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.