Is Roasted and salted cashews ultra-processed?

160g Salted nuts Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Roasted and salted cashews

It's processed, but not ultra-processed

  1. 1 Unprocessed
  2. 2 Kitchen staple
  3. 3 Processed
  4. 4 Ultra-processed

Open Food Facts counts every product in its category, salty snacks, as at least group 3.

  • 8 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score E

Less processed salty snacks

Less processed isn't automatically healthier, so compare the labels for what matters to you, such as sugar or salt.

Ingredients

cashew nuts 96%, rapeseed oil, salt allergy advice! for allergens see ingredients in bold, products, celery, mustard, and soya, storage conditions

As written on the pack

cashew nuts 96%, rapeseed oil, salt allergy advice! for allergens see ingredients in bold. may also contain traces of other nuts, peanuts, sesame, cereals containing gluten, milk products, celery, mustard, and soya. suitable for vegetarians storage conditions:

What makes it processed

Category rules

Open Food Facts puts every product in this category in at least this group.

  • Salty snacks Products in the category "Salty snacks" are at least group 3.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 99 salted nuts

From least to most processed, this one ranks 73rd. 23% of the salted nuts 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 99 salted nuts, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5060476793269, last edited 10 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.