Is Tesco crisp ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- 19 ingredients
- 4 additives
- Nutri-Score B
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NOVA group
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Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
maize, sunflower oil, whey powder (ultra-processing marker), salt, buttermilk powder, dextrose (ultra-processing marker), sugar, onion, flavouring (ultra-processing marker), cheese powder, citric acid, garlic, yeast extract, paprika, maltodextrin (ultra-processing marker), colour (ultra-processing marker) (paprika extract (ultra-processing marker)), lactic acid, calcium lactate (ultra-processing marker)
Additives: E160c Paprika extract , E270 Lactic acid , E327 Calcium lactate , E330 Citric acid
As written on the pack
maize, sunflower oil, whey powder (milk), salt, buttermilk powder (milk), dextrose, sugar, onion powder, flavouring (contains milk), cheese powder (milk), citric acid, garlic powder, yeast extract, paprika, maltodextrin, colour (paprika extract), lactic acid, calcium lactate.
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.
- E160c Paprika extract Paprika extract is a red-orange colour extracted from paprika peppers.
- E327 Calcium lactate Thickeners are substances which increase the viscosity of a foodstuff.
- 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.
Among 49 rapeseed oils
From least to most processed, this one ranks 49th. 20% of the rapeseed oils here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5000436802433, 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 B (from A, best, to E).
- General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.