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Is Tesco Gouda and Edam crispies ultra-processed?

90g Crispbreads Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Tesco Gouda and Edam crispies

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:

  • 17 ingredients
  • 1 additive
  • Nutri-Score E

Less processed crispbreads

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

Wheat Flour, Gouda Medium Fat Hard Cheese 23% (Cheese, Colour (Mixed Carotenes)), Butter, Dried Whole Milk, Edam Medium Fat Hard Cheese 1% (Cheese, Colour (Mixed Carotenes)), Sea Salt, Mustard, White Pepper, Milk Proteins, Dextrose, Rapeseed Oil

Additives: E160a Carotene

As written on the pack

Wheat Flour, Gouda Medium Fat Hard Cheese (23%) [Cheese (Milk), Colour (Mixed Carotenes)], Butter (Milk) (20%), Dried Whole Milk, Edam Medium Fat Hard Cheese (1%) [Cheese (Milk), Colour (Mixed Carotenes)], Sea Salt, Mustard Powder, White Pepper, Milk Proteins, Dextrose, Rapeseed Oil. Allergy Advice

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.

  • E160a Carotene Carotenes are orange-yellow pigments, either synthesised or extracted from carrots, algae or palm oil.
  • Colour Colours are added to restore colour lost in processing or to make a product look more appealing.

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.
  • Milk proteins Milk proteins are proteins separated from milk, such as caseinates and whey protein concentrates, added to adjust texture or raise protein content.
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.

  • Butter Butter, the fat churned from cream.
  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • Milk powder Milk powder is milk with the water evaporated off: a preserved form of a whole food rather than an industrial extract.
  • Cheese Cheese is milk preserved with salt, cultures and rennet.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 86 crispbreads

From least to most processed, this one ranks 84th. 33% of the crispbreads 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 86 crispbreads, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5059697685354, 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 E (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.