Is Waitrose Chilli Coated Peanuts ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- 34 ingredients
- 5 additives
- Nutri-Score D
Less processed coated peanuts
Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
Peanuts, rapeseed oil, potato starch (processing marker), modified maize starch (ultra-processing marker), maize starch (processing marker), sugar (processing marker), modified tapioca starch (ultra-processing marker), wheat starch (processing marker), onion, salt (processing marker), thickener (ultra-processing marker) (acacia gum (ultra-processing marker)), garlic, yeast extract, rice flour, tomato, stabiliser (potassium chloride), paprika, soya beans, maltodextrin (ultra-processing marker), flavouring (ultra-processing marker), parsley, acid (citric acid), chilli, colours (ultra-processing marker) (paprika extract (ultra-processing marker), curcumin (ultra-processing marker)), chilli, ginger extract, bay leaf extract, coriander, fennel seeds
Additives: E100 Curcumin , E160c Paprika extract , E330 Citric acid , E414 Acacia gum , E508 Potassium chloride
As written on the pack
Peanuts, rapeseed oil, potato starch, modified maize starch, maize starch, sugar, modified tapioca starch, wheat starch, onion powder, salt, thickener (acacia gum), garlic powder, yeast extract, rice flour, tomato powder, stabiliser (potassium chloride), paprika, soya beans, maltodextrin, flavouring, parsley, acid (citric acid), chilli powder, colours (paprika extract, curcumin), chilli extract, ginger extract, bay leaf extract, coriander extract, fennel 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.
- E100 Curcumin Colours are substances which add or restore colour in a food, and include natural constituents of foods and natural sources which are normally not consumed as foods as such and not normally used as characteristic ingredients of food.
- E160c Paprika extract Paprika extract is a red-orange colour extracted from paprika peppers.
- E414 Acacia gum Gum arabic (acacia gum) is the hardened sap of acacia trees, used to stabilise flavour emulsions in soft drinks and to coat sweets.
- 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.
- Thickener Thickeners, often gums or modified starches, make liquids more viscous so that a product feels richer than its ingredients alone would make it.
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- Modified starch Modified starch is starch altered physically, with enzymes or chemically, so that it thickens, gels or survives freezing and heating better than ordinary starch.
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.
- 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.
Among 13 coated peanuts
From least to most processed, this one ranks 13th. 85% of the coated peanuts here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5000169626627, last edited 20 November 2024), available under the Open Database License. If something is wrong or the recipe has changed, you can correct it there.
- 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.