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Is The Good Crisp Company Sour Cream & Onion Potato Crisps ultra-processed?

45 grams Stacked extruded potato crisps Sold in the United States

Pack of The Good Crisp Company Sour Cream & Onion Potato Crisps

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:

  • 19 ingredients
  • 2 additives
  • Nutri-Score E

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

potato, palm oil (vitamin e), tapioca starch, sour cream, onion seasoning (milk, onion powder, sour cream, butter, sugar, parsley, salt, malic acid), onion powder, salt, sugar, citric acid, yeast extract

Additives: E296 Malic acid , E330 Citric acid

As written on the pack

dried potato flakes, palm oil (vitamin e), tapioca starch, sour cream & onion seasoning (milk solids, onion powder, sour cream, butter, sugar, parsley, salt, malic acid), onion powder, salt, sugar, citric acid, yeast extract.

What makes it processed

Culinary ingredients

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.
  • Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.
  • 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 48 stacked extruded potato crisps

From least to most processed, this one ranks 2nd. 96% of the stacked extruded potato crisps 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 48 stacked extruded potato crisps, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0851562007057, last edited 26 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 E (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.