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Is Tayto Salt & Vinegar ultra-processed?

37 g Potato crisps with salt Sold in Ireland

Pack of Tayto Salt & Vinegar

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:

  • 12 ingredients
  • 1 additive
  • Nutri-Score D

Less processed potato crisps with salt

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

Potato, Vegetable Oil (Sunflower Vegetable Oil, Rapeseed Vegetable Oil), Salt and Vinegar Flavour (Natural Flavourings, Lactose, Salt, Citric Acid, Sugar, Potassium Chloride, Yeast Extract)

Additives: E330 Citric acid

As written on the pack

Potato, Vegetable Oil (Sunflower, Rapeseed in varying proportions), Salt & Vinegar Flavour [Natural Flavourings, Lactose (MILK), Salt, Acid (Citric Acid), Sugar, Potassium Chloride, Yeast Extract]. May contain traces of Wheat, Barley and Soya.

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.

  • 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.

  • Lactose Lactose is milk sugar, crystallised industrially from whey, a by-product of cheese making.
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.

  • Salty snacks Products in the category "Salty snacks" are at least group 3.
  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • 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

Among 13 potato crisps with salt

From least to most processed, this one ranks 13th. 8% of the potato crisps with salt 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 13 potato crisps with salt, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5011096011073, last edited 19 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 D (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.