Saltines

How it scored 30 / 100

Nutrition snapshot

Ingredients 17 listed

• 1 Flour
  Powder from milled grain, typically wheat (Triticum spp.) unless otherwise specified.
  Low
• 2 Water
  Water intended for human consumption; the most common ingredient in processed foods and beverages. Bottled water is regulated as a food unde…
  Safe
• 3 Soya Oil
  Vegetable oil extracted from soybeans (Glycine max), typically refined, bleached, and deodorized. High in polyunsaturated fats, particularly…
  Low
• 4 Yeast
  Single-celled fungus, primarily Saccharomyces cerevisiae, used in fermentation and baking. A whole-food microorganism with millennia of food…
  Safe
• 5 Sugar
  Sucrose, a disaccharide of glucose and fructose, refined from sugarcane or sugar beets.
  Moderate
• 6 Salt
  Sodium chloride (NaCl), a crystalline mineral compound composed of roughly 40% sodium and 60% chloride by mass.
  Low
• 7 Sodium Hydrogen Carbonate
  Sodium hydrogen carbonate (sodium bicarbonate, NaHCO3), commonly known as baking soda.
  Low
• 8 Calcium Sulphate
  Calcium sulfate (CaSO4), a naturally occurring mineral (gypsum) used as a firming agent, dough conditioner, and calcium source in food.
  Low
• 9 Ammonium Sulphate
  Ammonium sulfate ((NH4)2SO4), an inorganic salt used as a flour treatment agent and yeast nutrient.
  Low
• 10 Wheat Flour
  Powder ground from wheat grain (Triticum aestivum). Contains starch, gluten-forming proteins (gliadin, glutenin), bran, and germ depending o…
  Low
• 11 Barley Malt Flour
  Flour milled from barley (Hordeum vulgare) that has been germinated (malted) and dried.
  Low
• 12 Nicotinic Acid
  Nicotinic acid (niacin or vitamin B3, pyridine-3-carboxylic acid). E375 is the EU additive code for its use as a vitamin/nutrient added to f…
  Low
• 13 Reduced Iron
  Elemental iron powder (Fe) produced by reducing iron oxide with hydrogen or carbon monoxide; used as a food fortificant.
  Low
• 14 THIAMINE MONONITRATE RIBOFLAVIN —
• 15 Folic Acid
  Synthetic form of folate (vitamin B9). Pteroylmonoglutamic acid, a water-soluble B vitamin essential for DNA synthesis and red blood cell fo…
  Low
• 16 Tertiary-Butylhydroquinone (Tbhq)
  Synthetic phenolic antioxidant tert-butylhydroquinone, used to retard oxidation of fats and oils.
  High
• 17 Antioxidant
  Functional class label for substances added to retard oxidative rancidity (e.g., tocopherols, ascorbic acid, BHA, BHT, TBHQ, rosemary extrac…
  Low