Is Specially Selected Chunky Oven Chips ultra-processed?

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Yes, it's ultra-processed

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

potato 92%, rapeseed oil, 𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐅𝐥𝐨𝐮𝐫, cornflour, rice flour, salt (processing marker), dextrose (ultra-processing marker)

As written on the pack

potato (92%), rapeseed oil, 𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐅𝐥𝐨𝐮𝐫, cornflour, rice flour, salt, dextrose,

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.

1 ingredient that would only make it processed

Kitchen staples like sugar, salt and oil. On their own they make a food processed, not ultra-processed.

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 4088600227993, last edited 15 September 2026), available under the Open Database License. If something is wrong or the recipe has changed, you can correct it there.
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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 C (from A, best, to E).
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