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Is Walkers Baked prawn cocktail flavour ultra-processed?

6 x 22g Crisps made from reconstituted potato Sold in the United Kingdom and Ireland

Pack of Walkers Baked prawn cocktail flavour

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:

  • 25 ingredients
  • 6 additives
  • Nutri-Score C

Less processed crisps made from reconstituted potato

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

Potato Flakes, Starch, Rapeseed Oil, Prawn Cockta Seasoning, Sugar, Emulsifier (Lecithins), Sunflower Oil, Colour (Annatto Norbixin), Prawn Cocktail Seasoning (Flavouring), Sugar, Yeast Fowder, Salt, Dextrose, Acid (Citric Acid), Potassium Chloride, Onic n Powder, Tomato, Colour (Paprika Extract), Sweetener, Sucralose

Additives: E160b Annatto , E160bii Annatto norbixin , E160c Paprika extract , E322 Lecithins , E330 Citric acid , E955 Sucralose

As written on the pack

Potato Flakes, Starch, Rapeseed Oil, Prawn Cockta Seasoning, Sugar, Emulsifier (Lecithins), Sunflower Oil, Colour (Annatto Norbixin). Prawn Cocktail Seasoning: Flavouring, Sugar, Yeast Fowder, Salt, Dextrose, Acid (Citric Acid), Potassium Chloride, Onic n Powder, Tomato Powder, Colour (Paprika Extract), Sweetener (Sucralose, Allergy Advice May Contain: Milk, Wheat, Gluten, Barley, Soya, Celery, Mustard

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.

  • E160b Annatto 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.
  • E322 Lecithins Lecithins are fatty substances extracted mostly from soybeans, sunflower seeds or eggs, used as emulsifiers to keep fat and water mixed, for example in chocolate.
  • E955 Sucralose Sucralose is a sweetener made by chlorinating sugar.
  • Colour Colours are added to restore colour lost in processing or to make a product look more appealing.
  • Emulsifier Emulsifiers keep fat and water from separating, giving products a smooth, stable texture over a long shelf life.
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  • Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.
  • Sweetener Sweeteners give sweetness with few or no calories, many at hundreds of times the strength of sugar.

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.
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 19 crisps made from reconstituted potato

From least to most processed, this one ranks 19th. 89% of the crisps made from reconstituted potato 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 19 crisps made from reconstituted potato, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5000328015903, last edited 31 May 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 C (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.