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Is Snaktastic Wasabi mix rice snacks ultra-processed?

150 g Sold in the United Kingdom and Belgium

Pack of Snaktastic Wasabi mix rice snacks

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:

  • 44 ingredients
  • 8 additives
  • Nutri-Score D

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Rice 26%, Peanuts 16%, Vegetable Oil (Sunflower, Rice, Coconut), Modified Corn Starch, Starch (Corn, Tapioca), Sugar, Wheat_ Flour, Maltodextrin, Wasabi Seasoning (Dextrose, Flavouring, Onion Powder, Spices (contain Mustard), Wasabi 0.1%, Glucose, Citric Acid), Salt, Dextrin, Soy Sauce (Soya Beans, Wheat, Water, Salt), Lactose, Potassium Chloride, Seaweed, Curcumin, Copper Complexes of Chlorophyll, Plain Caramel, Paprika Extract, Yeast Extract, Tocopherol-Rich Extract, Capsicum Extract, Soy Sauce (Soya Beans, Wheat, Salt, Maltodextrin)

Additives: E100 Curcumin , E1400 Dextrin , E141 Copper complexes of chlorophylls and chlorophyllins , E141i Copper complexes of chlorophylls , E150a Plain caramel , E160c Paprika extract , E306 Tocopherol-rich extract , E330 Citric acid

Also detected, but not matched to one ingredient: E141 Copper complexes of chlorophylls and chlorophyllins.

As written on the pack

Rice 26%, Peanuts 16%, Vegetable Oil (Sunflower, Rice, Coconut), Modified Corn Starch, Starch (Corn, Tapioca), Sugar, - Wheat Flour, Maltodextrin, Wasabi Seasoning (Dextrose, Flavouring (contains Mustard), Onion Powder, Spices (contain Mustard), Wasabi Powder 0.1%, Glucose, Acid (Citric Acid)), Salt, Dextrin, Soy Sauce (Soya Beans, Wheat, Water, Salt), Lactose (Milk), Potassium Chloride, Seaweed, Colours (Curcumin, Copper Complexes of Chlorophyll, Plain Caramel, Paprika Extract), Yeast Extract, Antioxidant (Tocopherol-Rich Extract), Capsicum Extract, Soy Sauce Powder (Soya Beans, Wheat_, Salt, Maltodextrin).

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.
  • E1400 Dextrin Dextrin is starch partly broken down by heat or acid, used as a thickener, binder and coating.
  • E141 Copper complexes of chlorophylls and chlorophyllins 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.
  • E150a Plain caramel Plain caramel is a brown colour made by heating sugars.
  • E160c Paprika extract Paprika extract is a red-orange colour extracted from paprika peppers.
  • Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.
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  • 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.

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.
  • Lactose Lactose is milk sugar, crystallised industrially from whey, a by-product of cheese making.
  • Maltodextrin Maltodextrin is a white powder made by partly breaking down starch.
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.

  • 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.
  • Sauce A prepared sauce used as an ingredient.

How the NOVA groups work

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 20977757, last edited 1 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 D (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.