⌕ ZoomPhoto from the brand's official website
Each ingredient gets a tier from our researched dossier. The list sorts worst-first; the donut summarises the distribution. Tap any ingredient for its full dossier.
We treat each claim as a question — does what’s inside back it up? Tap a claim for the reasoning.
Kurkure Chilli Chatka is India's popular mass-market puffed snack, bought primarily as an affordable everyday munch for children, teens, and families. While the base ingredients — rice meal, corn meal, gram meal — are recognisable, the product tips into ultra-processed territory through its nature-identical flavouring substances and citric acid (E330), and its fat content of 35.7 g per 100 g (~57% of calories) is notably high. Sodium is not declared on the label, yet salt is a listed ingredient and the product carries all the usual high-salt signals of a savoury extruded snack. The single most useful thing a consumer should know: this is a high-fat, ultra-processed snack best enjoyed occasionally rather than daily, and it is particularly unsuitable for infants and toddlers due to the combination of capsaicin, piperine, and other pungent spice compounds.