Cream Crackers
Processing
4
Ultra-processed
Group 4 of 4 on the NOVA scale
Additives listed
6
0 we grade moderate or higher
5 of them not yet assessed here
Saturates per 100g
5.20g
High
UK FSA front of pack threshold
Three separate readings, kept apart on purpose. This is not a score, and none of it says this product is harmful.
Additives (6)
This label lists 2 raising agents, 2 thickeners and gelling agents, 1 acidity regulator and 1 anticaking agent.
E330
Citric acid
Acidity regulator
What it is. A mild acid found naturally in citrus fruit, made commercially by fermentation.
Why it is used. Adds tartness, balances flavour and helps preserve. One of the most used additives in food.
What the evidence says. Safe at food levels. No credible health concern for the additive itself.
Permitted freely.
Assessed against EFSA, JECFA. Full entry for E330
Also on the label, not assessed here yet
- E412 Guar gum thickener
- E464 Hydroxypropyl methyl cellulose thickener
- E500 Sodium carbonates raising agent
- E503 Ammonium carbonates raising agent
- E570 Fatty acids anticaking agent
Names and jobs come from the register of additives permitted in Great Britain, which we have not finished transcribing: a code shown without a name is a gap in our coverage, not a finding that it is unapproved. Naming one is not grading it either. Full detail appears only where we have an assessment against a named authority, so all of this describes our coverage rather than these additives. Most are common and low concern.
Ingredients
maize starch, vegetable margarine: [vegetable fats and oils (palm, palm kernel, coconut, canola in varying proportions), water, salt, emulsifier: (mono - and diacetyl tartaric esters of mono - and diglycerides of edible fatty acids), flavouring], maize flour, maltodextrin, modified tapioca starch, glucose syrup, soya protein, thickeners: (guar gum, hydroxypropyl methylcellulose), modified maize starch, emulsifier: (mono - and diacetyl tartaric esters of mono - and diglycerides of edible fatty acids), salt, raising agents: (ammonium hydrogen carbonate, sodium hydrogen carbonate), acidity regulator: (citric acid), natural flavouring,
As printed on the pack, in the producer's own order: ingredients are listed by weight, so what comes first is most of what is in it. E numbers link to their assessment where we have one.