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Is Trader Joe's Pita Chips ultra-processed?

Crisps Sold in the United States

Pack of Trader Joe's Pita Chips

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:

  • 14 ingredients
  • 2 additives
  • Nutri-Score D

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

Pita Bread (Wheat Flour, Vital Wheat Gluten, Cane Sugar, Salt, Yeast, Malted Barley Flour), High-Oleic Sunflower Oil (Sunflower Oil, Mixed Tocopherols (To Preserve), Rosemary Extract (To Preserve)), Sea Salt

Additives: E306 Tocopherol-rich extract , E392 Extracts of rosemary

As written on the pack

Pita Bread (Wheat Flour, Vital Wheat Gluten, Cane Sugar, Salt, Yeast, Malted Barley Flour), High-Oleic Sunflower Oil (Sunflower Oil, Mixed Tocopherols [To Preserve], Rosemary Extract [To Preserve]), Sea Salt.

What makes it processed

Culinary ingredients

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.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
  • Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.
  • Bread An ingredient mostly produced industrially and rarely used in home kitchens.

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 1,471 crisps

From least to most processed, this one ranks 500th. 64% of the 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 1,471 crisps, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 00910538, last edited 18 April 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.