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Brown sugars, from least to most processed

We track 11 brown sugars, 18% of them ultra-processed. The least processed is Light Brown Soft Natural Unrefined Cane Sugar.

What makes brown sugars ultra-processed

The signs of ultra-processing found most often, and the share of brown sugars that contain each:

Processed culinary ingredient (9)

  1. 1 Light Brown Soft Natural Unrefined Cane Sugar Billington's · 500g 2
  2. 2 Light Muscavado Sugar Billington's · 500g 2
  3. 3 Billington’s Dark Brown Sugar Billington’s · 500g 2
  4. 4 Demerara Billington's · 1kg 2
  5. 5 Dark Muscovado Tate & Lyle · 500 g 2
  6. 6 Demerara Sugar Tesco · 1 kg 2
  7. 7 Dark Brown Soft Pure Cane Sugar Tate & Lyle · 500g 2
  8. 8 dark brown soft cane sugar Sainsbury's 2
  9. 9 Aldi Light Brown Soft Sugar The Pantry · 500g 2

Ultra-processed food (2)

  1. 10 Brun farin strö Dan Sukker · 500 g 4
  2. 11 Light brown sugar Asda · 500g 4

Within each group, products with fewer signs of ultra-processing, additives and ingredients come first. This ordering is ours, for comparison; it is not part of NOVA.