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Is Sea Salt & Vinegar Wilde Protein Chips ultra-processed?

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Pack of Sea Salt & Vinegar Wilde Protein Chips

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:

  • 13 ingredients
  • 1 additive
  • Nutri-Score D

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Chicken (natural* chicken, tapioca flour, coconut oil, black pepper, garlic), seasoning blend (vinegar (tapioca maltodextrin, white distilled vinegar), sea salt, tapioca maltodextrin, citric acid)

Additives: E330 Citric acid

As written on the pack

Chicken chips (natural* chicken, tapioca flour, coconut oil, black pepper, garlic powder), seasoning blend [vinegar powder (tapioca maltodextrin, white distilled vinegar) sea salt, tapioca maltodextrin, citric acid]

What makes it ultra-processed

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.

  • Maltodextrin Maltodextrin is a white powder made by partly breaking down starch.
3 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.

  • 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.

How the NOVA groups work

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0866418000342, last edited 25 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 D (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.