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Is Snyder's of Hanover Pretzel Pieces Honey Mustard & Onion flavored Sourdough Hard Pretzels ultra-processed?

318 g Sold in the United States

Pack of Snyder's of Hanover Pretzel Pieces Honey Mustard & Onion flavored Sourdough Hard Pretzels

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:

  • 36 ingredients
  • 2 additives
  • Nutri-Score E

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

flour (wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), palm oil, sugar, onion powder, dextrose, salt, whey, honey, hydrolyzed soy protein, mustard powder (mustard (vinegar, mustard, salt turmeric), maltodextrin, starch), wheat starch, vinegar (maltodextrin modified food starch, vinegar), yeast, canola oil, citric acid, natural flavor, horseradish, spice, turmeric extract (color), soda, suy

Additives: E100 Curcumin , E330 Citric acid

As written on the pack

enriched flour (wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), palm oil, sugar, onion powder, dextrose, salt, whey (milk), honey powder, hydrolyzed soy protein, mustard powder (mustard [vinegar, mustard, salt turmeric], maltodextrin, starch), wheat starch, vinegar powder (maltodextrin modified food starch, vinegar), yeast, canola oil, citric acid, natural flavor, horseradish, spice, turmeric extract (color), soda. contains: wheat, milk, suy

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.

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.
  • Maltodextrin Maltodextrin is a white powder made by partly breaking down starch.
  • Whey Whey is the liquid left over from cheese making, usually dried into a powder and used as a cheap source of milk solids, protein and lactose.
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.

  • Honey Honey, used as a sweetener.
  • 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.

How the NOVA groups work

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0077975095126, last edited 5 August 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 E (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.