Is Sainsbury's Extra Crispy Chips with skin on ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- 18 ingredients
- 8 additives
- Nutri-Score B
Less processed crisps
Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
Potato 87%, Sunflower Oil (processing marker), Modified Potato Starch (ultra-processing marker), Rice Flour, Potato Starch (processing marker), Salt (processing marker), Dextrin (ultra-processing marker), Raising Agents (Sodium Hydrogen Carbonate), Diphosphates (ultra-processing marker), Processing Aid (Disodium Diphosphate (ultra-processing marker)), Silicon Dioxide, Thickener (ultra-processing marker) (Xanthan Gum (ultra-processing marker)), Dextrose (ultra-processing marker), Paprika Extract (ultra-processing marker), Turmeric Extract (ultra-processing marker)
Additives: E100 Curcumin , E1400 Dextrin , E160c Paprika extract , E415 Xanthan gum , E450 Diphosphates , E450i Disodium diphosphate , E500 Sodium carbonates , E500ii Sodium hydrogen carbonate
As written on the pack
Potato (87%), Sunflower Oil, Modified Potato Starch, Rice Flour, Potato Starch, Salt, Dextrin, Raising Agents: Sodium Hydrogen Carbonate, Diphosphates; Processing Aid: Disodium Diphosphate, Silicon Dioxide; Thickener: Xanthan Gum; Dextrose, Paprika Extract, Turmeric Extract
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.
- E100 Curcumin Colours are substances which add or restore colour in a food, and include natural constituents of foods and natural sources which are normally not consumed as foods as such and not normally used as characteristic ingredients of food.
- E1400 Dextrin Dextrin is starch partly broken down by heat or acid, used as a thickener, binder and coating.
- E160c Paprika extract Paprika extract is a red-orange colour extracted from paprika peppers.
- E415 Xanthan gum Xanthan gum is a thickener made by fermenting sugar with the bacterium Xanthomonas campestris.
- E450 Diphosphates Diphosphates are phosphate salts used as raising agents in baking powder, and to hold water in processed meats and cheese.
- Thickener Thickeners, often gums or modified starches, make liquids more viscous so that a product feels richer than its ingredients alone would make it.
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- Modified starch Modified starch is starch altered physically, with enzymes or chemically, so that it thickens, gels or survives freezing and heating better than ordinary starch.
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.
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.
- 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 1391st. 64% of the crisps here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 00424783, last edited 6 May 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 B (from A, best, to E).
- General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.