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Is Unearthed Stuffed Green Peppers ultra-processed?

150g Salty snacks Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Unearthed Stuffed Green Peppers

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
  • 5 additives
  • Nutri-Score D

Less processed salty snacks

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

Cream Cheese Filling 58% (Milk, Onion Extract, Salt, Starch, Lactic Acid, Potassium Sorbate), Green Peppers 40% (Green Peppers, Salt, Acetic Acid, Citric Acid, Sodium Metabisulphite), Rapeseed Oil

Additives: E202 Potassium sorbate , E223 Sodium metabisulphite , E260 Acetic acid , E270 Lactic acid , E330 Citric acid

As written on the pack

Cream Cheese Filling 58% (Milk, Onion Extract, Salt, Starch, Lactic Acid, Potassium Sorbate), Marinated Green Peppers 40% (Green Peppers, Salt, Acetic Acid, Citric Acid, Sodium Metabisulphite), Rapeseed Oil.

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.
  • Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.

Preservation and traditional processing

Keep food safe or ferment it, like preservatives and cultures. A sign of processing, not ultra-processing.

  • E202 Potassium sorbate Preservatives are substances which prolong the shelf-life of foods by protecting them against deterioration caused by micro-organisms and/or which protect against growth of pathogenic micro-organisms.

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 2,718 salty snacks

From least to most processed, this one ranks 1031st. 62% of the salty snacks 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 2,718 salty snacks, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5010292970771, last edited 23 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.