Is Trader Joe's Plantain Chips ultra-processed?

170 g Dried fruits Sold in the United States

It's processed, but not ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Whole foods combined with:

Maple syrup

8 ingredients
No additives
Nutri-Score C

Less processed dried fruits

Raisins Sun-Maid 1 ingredient · no additives NOVA group 1
Organic Sun-Dried Dates Pitted Deglet Nour Sunny Fruit 1 ingredient · no additives NOVA group 1
Organic Raisins Sun-Maid 1 ingredient · no additives NOVA group 1
Freeze Dried Strawberries unsweetened & unsulfured Trader Joe's 1 ingredient · no additives NOVA group 1

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

water, lemon juice, maple syrup (processing marker), apple cider vinegar, ginger, cinnamon, cayenne pepper, bacillus coagulans

As written on the pack

water, organic lemon juice, organic maple syrup, organic apple cider vinegar, organic ginger juice, organic ground cinnamon, organic ground cayenne pepper, bacillus coagulans

What makes it processed

Culinary ingredients

Kitchen staples like sugar, salt and oil. On their own they make a food processed, not ultra-processed.

Maple syrup 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 398 dried fruits

From least to most processed, this one ranks 217th. 16% of the dried fruits 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 398 dried fruits, least processed first

About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 00972086, last edited 14 September 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 C (from A, best, to E).
General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.