Is Walkers Honey & Salt Roasted Peanuts ultra-processed?

Roasted peanuts Sold in the United Kingdom

Yes, it's ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

Colour
Thickener
Fructose
E1400 Dextrin
E415 Xanthan gum

13 ingredients
2 additives
Nutri-Score D

Less processed roasted peanuts

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

Roasted Peanuts 69%, Sugar (processing marker), Sunflower Oil (processing marker), Potato Starch (processing marker), Honey (processing marker), Wheat Starch (processing marker), Fructose (ultra-processing marker), Salt (processing marker), Tapioca Dextrin (ultra-processing marker), Colour (ultra-processing marker), Plain Caramel, Thickening Agent (ultra-processing marker) (Xanthan Gum (ultra-processing marker))

Additives: E1400 Dextrin , E415 Xanthan gum

As written on the pack

Roasted Peanuts (69%), Sugar, Sunflower Oil, Potato Starch, Honey Powder, Wheat Starch, Fructose, Salt, Tapioca Dextrin, Colour (Plain Caramel Molasses Powder, Thickening Agent (Xanthan Gum)

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.

E1400 Dextrin Dextrin is starch partly broken down by heat or acid, used as a thickener, binder and coating.
E415 Xanthan gum Xanthan gum is a thickener made by fermenting sugar with the bacterium Xanthomonas campestris.
Colour Colours are added to restore colour lost in processing or to make a product look more appealing.
Thickener Thickeners, often gums or modified starches, make liquids more viscous so that a product feels richer than its ingredients alone would make it.

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.

Fructose Fructose is the sugar found naturally in fruit and honey, but as an ingredient it is refined industrially, mostly from corn starch.

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.

Honey Honey, used as a sweetener.
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 93 roasted peanuts

From least to most processed, this one ranks 82nd. 46% of the roasted peanuts 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 93 roasted peanuts, least processed first

About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5000328698588, last edited 27 March 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.