Is Traditional Chex Mix Snack Mix ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- 42 ingredients
- 12 additives
- Nutri-Score E
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Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
Degermed Yellow Corn Meal, Whole Wheat, Flour (wheat flour, niacin, iron, riboflavin, thiamin mononitrate, folic acid), Vegetable Oil (processing marker) (soybean, high oleic sodan high oleic canola, high oleic sunflower, fractiona palm, palm den, palm), Rye Flour, Sugar (processing marker), Contains 2% and less of al Yeast, Maltodextrin (ultra-processing marker), Baking Soda, Spice, Dextrose (ultra-processing marker), Carlo Distilled Monoglycerides, Malted Barley Extract, Barley Ma Autolyzed Yeast, Yellow Corn Flour, Trisodium Phosphate, Calcu Carbonate, Dried Onion, Dried Garlic, Hydrolyzed Soy Pre Flour, Fumaric Acid, Citric Acid, Caraway, Disodium Inosinate Disodium Guanylate, Paprika Extract (ultra-processing marker) (color (ultra-processing marker)), Natural Flavor (ultra-processing marker), Sodium Diacetate, Freshness Preserved by BHT, ingredients
Additives: E160c Paprika extract , E262 Sodium acetates , E262ii Sodium diacetate , E297 Fumaric acid , E321 Butylated hydroxytoluene , E330 Citric acid , E339 Sodium phosphates , E339iii Trisodium phosphate , E500 Sodium carbonates , E500ii Sodium hydrogen carbonate , E502 Carbonates , E627 Disodium guanylate
As written on the pack
Degermed Yellow Corn Meal, Whole Wheat, Enriched Flour (wheat flour, niacin, iron, riboflavin, thiamin mononitrate, folic acid), Vegetable Oil (soybean, high oleic sodan high oleic canola, high oleic sunflower, fractiona palm, palm den and/or palm), Rye Flour, Sugar. Contains 2% or less of al Yeast, Maltodextrin, Baking Soda, Spice, Dextrose, Carlo Distilled Monoglycerides, Malted Barley Extract, Barley Ma Autolyzed Yeast, Yellow Corn Flour, Trisodium Phosphate, Calcu Carbonate, Dried Onion, Dried Garlic, Hydrolyzed Soy Pre Flour, Fumaric Acid, Citric Acid, Caraway, Disodium Inosinate Disodium Guanylate, Paprika Extract (color), Natural Flavor, Sodium Diacetate. Freshness Preserved by BHT. CONTAINS WHEAT AND SOY INGREDIENTS.
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.
- E627 Disodium guanylate Disodium guanylate is a flavour enhancer usually used together with MSG.
- 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.
3 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.
- Salty snacks Products in the category "Salty snacks" are at least group 3.
- Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
- Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.
Among 2,497 appetizers
From least to most processed, this one ranks 2351st. 64% of the appetizers here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0016000122505, last edited 2 June 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.