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Is Tayto Hunky Dorys Crinkle Cut Cheddar Cheese & Spring Onion Flavour Crinkle Cut Potato Crisps ultra-processed?

130g Sold in Ireland

Pack of Tayto Hunky Dorys Crinkle Cut Cheddar Cheese & Spring Onion Flavour Crinkle Cut Potato Crisps

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:

  • 16 ingredients
  • 1 additive
  • Nutri-Score D

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Potato, Vegetable Oil (Sunflower Vegetable Oil, Rapeseed Vegetable Oil), in varying proportions Cheese&Onion Flavour (Onion Powder, Yeast Powder, Natural Flavourings, Salt, Dextrose, Starch, Potassium Chloride, Sugar, Yeast Extract), ADDITIONAL INFORMATION No Artificial Colours and Flavours No Added MSG, Source of Fibre Packaged in a Protective Atmosphere TYPICAL

Additives: E621 Monosodium glutamate

Also detected, but not matched to one ingredient: E621 Monosodium glutamate.

As written on the pack

Potato, Vegetable Oil (Sunflower, Rapeseed in varying proportions Cheese&Onion Flavour [Onion Powder, Yeast Powder, Natural Flavourings, Salt, Dextrose, Starch, Potassium Chloride, Sugar, Yeast Extract]. May contain Milk, Wheat, Barley and Soya. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Suitable for Vegetarians No Artificial Colours or Flavours No Added MSG - Source of Fibre Packaged in a Protective Atmosphere TYPICAL

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.

  • E621 Monosodium glutamate Monosodium glutamate (MSG) is the sodium salt of glutamic acid, made by fermentation and used to strengthen savoury taste.
  • 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.
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.

  • 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.

How the NOVA groups work

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5011096012131, last edited 31 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.