Is Snackrite Salt 'N' Vinegar Starry Night Mix ultra-processed?

125 g Puffed salty snacks made from potato Sold in the United Kingdom and Ireland

Yes, it's ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

Colour
Flavouring
Modified starch
E100 Curcumin

18 ingredients
2 additives
Nutri-Score D

Less processed puffed salty snacks made from potato

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

vegetable oils (processing marker), rapeseed oil, sunflower oil (processing marker), starch (processing marker), modified potato starch (ultra-processing marker), maltodex acidity regulators (citric acid), calcium phos chloride, vinegar, colours (ultra-processing marker) (curcumin (ultra-processing marker)), potato, potato salt, sugar (processing marker), rice flour, ates, flavouring (ultra-processing marker), potassium aprika extract

Additives: E100 Curcumin , E330 Citric acid

As written on the pack

vegetable oils (rapeseed oil, sunflower oil, starch, modified potato starch, maltodex acidity regulators: citric acid, calcium phos chloride, vinegar powder, colours: curcumin, potato powder, potato salt, sugar, rice flour, ates, flavouring, potassium aprika 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.
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.
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.

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.
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 28 puffed salty snacks made from potato

From least to most processed, this one ranks 20th. 86% of the puffed salty snacks made from potato 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 28 puffed salty snacks made from potato, least processed first

About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 4088600565729, last edited 25 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.