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Is Santa Maria Lentil Pops Sour Cream and Onion Flavor ultra-processed?

100g Lentil crisps Sold in Sweden and Denmark

Pack of Santa Maria Lentil Pops Sour Cream and Onion Flavor

Yes, it's ultra-processed

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

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

  • 27 ingredients
  • 4 additives
  • Nutri-Score D

Less processed lentil crisps

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

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Lentil flour 31%, rice flour, potato, sunflower oil, sour cream, onion seasoning (dextrose, salt, onion 0.8%, sour CREAM 0.7%, acidity regulators (e270, e296, e262), natural flavouring, flavouring (cream, sour CREAM), sugar, garlic, onion extract, parsley, chives, rosemary extract), maize starch, potato starch, salt

Additives: E262 Sodium acetates , E270 Lactic acid , E296 Malic acid , E392 Extracts of rosemary

As written on the pack

Lentil flour (31%), rice flour, potato, sunflower oil, sour cream & onion seasoning (dextrose, salt, onion (0,8%), sour CREAM powder (0,7%), acidity regulators (E270, E296, E262), natural flavouring, flavouring (CREAM, sour CREAM), sugar, garlic, onion extract, parsley, chives, rosemary extract), maize starch, potato starch, salt. May contain traces of soya.

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.

  • 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.

  • Dextrose Dextrose is pure glucose crystallised from starch-derived syrup.
  • Glucose Glucose, usually listed as glucose syrup, is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
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.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 13 lentil crisps

From least to most processed, this one ranks 12th. 77% of the lentil crisps 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 13 lentil crisps, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 7311312007711, last edited 26 July 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.