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Is Smart Ones Ham & Cheese Scramble ultra-processed?

184 g Sold in the United States

Pack of Smart Ones Ham & Cheese Scramble

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:

  • 19 ingredients
  • 2 additives
  • Nutri-Score A

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

scrambled egg whites (egg whites, whole eggs, corn starch, xanthan gum, annatto (color)), russet potatoes (potatoes, canola oil, salt pepper), cooked ham with water added, HAM, water, sugar, salt, potassium chloride, potassium, sodium phosphate

Additives: E160b Annatto , E415 Xanthan gum

As written on the pack

SCRAMBLED EGG WHITES (EGG WHITES, WHOLE EGGS, CORN STARCH, XANTHAN GUM, ANNATTO [COLOR]), ROASTED RUSSET POTATOES (POTATOES, CANOLA OIL, SALT PEPPER), COOKED HAM WITH WATER ADDED (HAM, WATER, SUGAR, SALT, POTASSIUM CHLORIDE, POTASSIUM AND SODIUM PHOSPHATE

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.

  • E160b Annatto 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.
  • E415 Xanthan gum Xanthan gum is a thickener made by fermenting sugar with the bacterium Xanthomonas campestris.
  • Colour Colours are added to restore colour lost in processing or to make a product look more appealing.
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.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

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About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0025800020409, last edited 29 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 A (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.