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Is Tyrrell's Lentil Crisps Sour Cream and Onion ultra-processed?

24 g Lentil crisps Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Tyrrell's Lentil Crisps Sour Cream and Onion

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
  • 1 additive
  • Nutri-Score A

Less processed lentil 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

Lentil flour, rice flour, sunflower oil, maize flour, sour cream, onion seasoning (onion powder, whey powder, natural flavouring, sour cream, sugar, salt, yeast extract, lactose, garlic powder, onion extract, rubbed parsley, acid (citric acid), black pepper extract), potato starch, pea starch, sugar, potassium chloride, salt, green pepper

Additives: E330 Citric acid

As written on the pack

Lentil flour, rice flour, sunflower oil, maize flour, sour cream & onion seasoning [onion powder, whey powder (MILK), natural flavouring, sour cream powder (MILK), sugar, salt, yeast extract, lactose (MILK), garlic powder, onion extract, rubbed parsley, acid (citric acid), black pepper extract], potato starch, pea starch, sugar, potassium chloride, salt, green pepper powder.

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.

  • 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.

  • Lactose Lactose is milk sugar, crystallised industrially from whey, a by-product of cheese making.
  • Whey Whey is the liquid left over from cheese making, usually dried into a powder and used as a cheap source of milk solids, protein and lactose.
5 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.
  • Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.
  • 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 13 lentil crisps

From least to most processed, this one ranks 9th. 77% of the lentil 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 13 lentil crisps, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5000237204122, last edited 30 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 A (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.