Is Quest Tortilla Style Protein Chips Chili Lime Flavor ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- Colour
- Flavouring
- Milk proteins
- Vegetable fiber
- E160c Paprika extract
- E170 Calcium carbonates
- and 2 more
- 33 ingredients
- 7 additives
- Nutri-Score E
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Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
protein blend (milk protein isolate (ultra-processing marker), whey protein isolate (ultra-processing marker)), vegetable oil (processing marker) (sunflower, canola, and soybean oil), calcium caseinate, corn starch (processing marker), natural flavors (ultra-processing marker), salt (processing marker), psyllium husk (ultra-processing marker), onion powder, paprika, spice, chia seed, vinegar, lime juice, sugar (processing marker), yeast, citric acid, turmeric oleoresin (color (ultra-processing marker)), paprika extract (ultra-processing marker) (color (ultra-processing marker)), lecithin (ultra-processing marker) (sunflower, canola, and soy lecithin), calcium carbonate (ultra-processing marker), yeast extract, acacia gum (ultra-processing marker), stevia sweetener
Additives: E160c Paprika extract , E170 Calcium carbonates , E170i Calcium carbonate , E322 Lecithins , E322i Lecithin , E330 Citric acid , E414 Acacia gum
As written on the pack
protein blend (milk protein isolate, whey protein isolate), vegetable oil (sunflower, canola, and/or soybean oil), calcium caseinate, corn starch, natural flavors, salt, psyllium husk, onion powder, paprika, spice, chia seed, vinegar powder, lime juice powder, sugar, yeast, citric acid, turmeric oleoresin (color), paprika extract (color), lecithin (sunflower, canola, and/or soy lecithin), calcium carbonate, yeast extract, acacia gum, stevia sweetener
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.
- E170 Calcium carbonates Calcium carbonate is chalk.
- 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.
- E414 Acacia gum Gum arabic (acacia gum) is the hardened sap of acacia trees, used to stabilise flavour emulsions in soft drinks and to coat sweets.
- 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.
- Milk proteins Milk proteins are proteins separated from milk, such as caseinates and whey protein concentrates, added to adjust texture or raise protein content.
- 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.
5 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.
- Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.
Among 1,471 crisps
From least to most processed, this one ranks 1367th. 64% of the crisps here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0888849006656, last edited 28 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 E (from A, best, to E).
- General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.