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Is Tuc Sour Cream and Onion Crackers ultra-processed?

100 g Crackers (Appetizers) Sold in the United States and Ireland

Pack of Tuc Sour Cream and Onion Crackers

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:

  • 26 ingredients
  • 6 additives

Less processed crackers (Appetizers)

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, palm fat, barley malt extract, glucose syrup, eggs, raising agents (ammonium carbonates, sodium carbonates), salt, sugar, onion 0.5%, buttermilk powder, dextrose, sour cream 0.3% (from milk), acids (citric acid, lactic acid), parsley, flavourings, flour treatment agent (sodium metabisulphite), sunflower oil, flavour enhancers (disodium guanylate, dosodium inosinate)

Additives: E223 Sodium metabisulphite , E270 Lactic acid , E330 Citric acid , E500 Sodium carbonates , E503 Ammonium carbonates , E627 Disodium guanylate

As written on the pack

wheat flour, palm fat, barley malt extract, glucose syrup, eggs, raising agents (ammonium carbonates, sodium carbonates), salt, sugar, onion powder 0,5%, buttermilk powder, dextrose, sour cream powder 0,3% (from milk), acids (citric acid, lactic acid), parsley, flavourings, flour treatment agent (sodium metabisulphite), sunflower oil, flavour enhancers (disodium guanylate, dosodium inosinate), may contain soya, sesame seeds,

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.

  • E627 Disodium guanylate Disodium guanylate is a flavour enhancer usually used together with MSG.
  • Flavour enhancer Flavour enhancers such as monosodium glutamate (E621) strengthen savoury taste without adding a flavour of their own.
  • 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.
  • Glucose syrup Glucose syrup is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
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.

  • Salty snacks Products in the category "Salty snacks" are at least group 3.
  • 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.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 715 crackers (Appetizers)

From least to most processed, this one ranks 664th. 61% of the crackers (Appetizers) 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 715 crackers (Appetizers), least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5391517593280, last edited 2 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.
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.