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Is Sensible Portions garden Veggie Straws Zesty Ranch ultra-processed?

1 oz Crisps Sold in the United States and France

Pack of Sensible Portions garden Veggie Straws Zesty Ranch

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:

  • 39 ingredients
  • 3 additives
  • Nutri-Score D

Less processed 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

Veggie straws (potato flour, potato starch, corn starch, tomato paste, spinach powder, salt, sugar, beetroot powder (color), turmeric), canola oil, safflower oil, sunflower oil, buttermilk, coconut oil, garlic, natural flavors, yeast extract, onion, tomato, dextrose, sour cream (cream, nonfat milk, culture, nonfat milk, citric acid, cream (nonfat milk, cream, lactic acid, culture)), spices (including celery seeds), paprika, vinegar, malic acid, sodium caseinate

Additives: E270 Lactic acid , E296 Malic acid , E330 Citric acid

As written on the pack

Veggie straws (potato flour, potato starch, corn starch, tomato paste, spinach powder, salt, sugar, beetroot powder [color], turmeric), canola oil and/or safflower oil and/or sunflower oil, buttermilk, coconut oil, garlic powder, natural flavors, yeast extract, onion powder, tomato powder, dextrose, sour cream (cream, nonfat milk, culture, cultured nonfat milk, citric acid, cream [nonfat milk, cream, lactic acid, culture]), spices (including celery seeds), paprika, vinegar, malic acid, sodium caseinate.

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.

  • 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.

  • 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 1,471 crisps

From least to most processed, this one ranks 1088th. 64% of the 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 1,471 crisps, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0829515300074, last edited 2 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.