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Is Specially Selected Sea salt & lime ultra-processed?

Corn chips Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Specially Selected Sea salt & lime

It's processed, but not ultra-processed

  1. 1 Unprocessed
  2. 2 Kitchen staple
  3. 3 Processed
  4. 4 Ultra-processed

Whole foods combined with:

  • 17 ingredients
  • 1 additive
  • Nutri-Score C

Less processed crisps

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

Maize Flour, Rapeseed Oil, Rice Flour, golden linseed (196), sunflower seeds 0.5%, brown linseed 0.5%, Sugar, Yeast Powder, Yeast Extract Powder, Acid (Citric Acid), sea salt 0.5%, Lime, millet seeds 0.5%, Salt, Key Lime Oil

Additives: E330 Citric acid

As written on the pack

Maize Flour, Rapeseed Oil, Rice Flour, GOLDEN LINSEED (196), SUNFLOWER SEEDS (0.5%), BROWN LINSEED (0.5%), Sugar, Yeast Powder, Yeast Extract Powder, Acid: Citric Acid; SEA SALT (0.5%), Lime Powder, MILLET SEEDS (0.5%), Salt, Key Lime Oil. DIETARY ADVICE: Suitable for vegans. No artificial flavourings or preservatives.

What makes it processed

Culinary ingredients

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.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

Category rules

Open Food Facts puts every product in this category in at least this group.

  • Salty snacks Products in the category "Salty snacks" are at least group 3.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 359 corn chips

From least to most processed, this one ranks 185th. 46% of the corn chips 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 359 corn chips, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 4088600473314, last edited 27 March 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 C (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.