New Orleans Style Voodoo Potato Chips, Voodoo

Why Does This Score Ultra-Processed?

In our analysis, New Orleans Style Voodoo Potato Chips, Voodoo scores Ultra-Processed. That classification is shaped by ingredients commonly associated with ultra-processed foods:

• Artificial Flavors (Sodium Diacetate (Artificial Flavor)): Synthetic flavors indicate industrial food production.
• Natural Flavors (Monosodium Glutamate, Smoke Flavoring): Despite being natural, these are highly processed extracts.

Within Chips & Crisps, this product is more processed than about 85% of the 10,682 products we've analyzed.

Processing classification reflects ingredient and additive analysis, not a judgment of any product's safety, quality, or healthfulness.

What These Ingredients Tell Us

We group New Orleans Style Voodoo Potato Chips, Voodoo's ingredients into ingredient categories and note how each relates to food processing. The notes below describe the category, not this specific product's formulation.

Vegetable OilsProcessing indicator

In this product: Vegetable Oil (Corn Oil, Sunflower Oil, Cottonseed Oil And/Or Canola Oil).

Natural oils are minimally processed, hydrogenated oils indicate UPF.

Salt & SodiumProcessing indicator

In this product: Salt.

Basic preservative, but high amounts indicate processing.

Sugars & Natural SweetenersProcessing indicator

In this product: Sugar, Dextrose.

Natural sugars acceptable in moderation, excessive amounts indicate UPF.

Industrial FermentationProcessing indicator

In this product: Torula Yeast, Autolyzed Yeast Extract, Yeast.

Industrial fermentation for additive production.

MineralsProcessing indicator

In this product: Tricalcium Phosphate.

Added minerals often compensate for processing.

Food AcidsProcessing indicator

In this product: Citric Acid.

Common in both traditional and industrial foods.

Anti-Caking AgentsProcessing indicator

In this product: Calcium Silicate.

Common in powdered processed foods.