Honey

Honey is not a marker of ultra-processing. It is one of the markers Open Food Facts uses to classify a food as processed (NOVA group 3).

What it is and why it counts

Honey, used as a sweetener.

Culinary ingredients

These are group 2 ingredients, the kind a cook adds to whole foods. On their own they make a food processed (group 3), not ultra-processed.

More about honey on Wikidata

Where it turns up

Honey appears in 1,221 of the 40,000 products on this site (3%).

Products containing honey

Showing the 60 most popular of 1,221.

How the NOVA classification works