Is Quaker Chocolate Flavor 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:
- 22 ingredients
- 5 additives
- Nutri-Score D
Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
brown rice flour, degerminated milled corn, sugar (processing marker), corn maltodextrin (ultra-processing marker), invert sugar (ultra-processing marker), natural and artificial flavor (ultra-processing marker), sunflower oil (processing marker), milk chocolate chips (sugar (processing marker), chocolate liquor, dry whole milk (processing marker), cocoa butter (processing marker), soy lecithin (ultra-processing marker), vanillin (artificial flavor (ultra-processing marker))), cocoa powder, salt (processing marker), soy lecithin (ultra-processing marker), sucralose (ultra-processing marker), tocopherols (preservative (processing marker)), acesulfame potassium (ultra-processing marker)
Additives: E306 Tocopherol-rich extract , E322 Lecithins , E322i Lecithin , E950 Acesulfame k , E955 Sucralose
As written on the pack
Whole grain brown rice flour, degerminated milled corn, sugar, corn maltodextrin, invert sugar, natural and artificial flavor, sunflower oil, milk chocolate chips (sugar, chocolate liquor, dry whole milk, cocoa butter, soy lecithin, vanillin [artificial flavor]), cocoa powder, salt, soy lecithin, sucralose, tocopherols (preservative), acesulfame potassium.
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.
- E950 Acesulfame k Acesulfame K is a synthetic sweetener about 200 times sweeter than sugar, often combined with aspartame or sucralose.
- E955 Sucralose Sucralose is a sweetener made by chlorinating sugar.
- 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.
- Invert sugar Invert sugar is ordinary sugar split into glucose and fructose with acid or enzymes.
- Maltodextrin Maltodextrin is a white powder made by partly breaking down starch.
6 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.
- Preservative Preservatives slow spoilage by microbes.
- Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
- Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
- Vegetable fat Vegetable fats are oils that are solid at room temperature, such as palm or coconut fat.
- 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 0030000169315, last edited 6 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 D (from A, best, to E).
- General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.