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Is Alien Delight Alpen Delight Salted Carmel imp ultra-processed?

95g Cereal bars with nuts Sold in the United Kingdom and Ireland

Pack of Alien Delight Alpen Delight Salted Carmel imp

Yes, it's ultra-processed

  1. 1 Unprocessed
  2. 2 Kitchen staple
  3. 3 Processed
  4. 4 Ultra-processed

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

  • 35 ingredients
  • 3 additives
  • Nutri-Score C

Less processed cereal bars with nuts

Less processed isn't automatically healthier, so compare the labels for what matters to you, such as sugar or salt.

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Cereals 47% (Whole Oats, Rice, Whole Wheat), Oligofructose Syrup, Caramel 9% (Sugar, Glucose Syrup, Milk, Palm Oil, Milk Butter Fat, Salt, Flavouring), Cereal Flours (Rice, Wheat), Glucose Syrup, Plain Chocolate 4% (Sugar, Cocoa Mass, Cocoa Butter, Emulsifier (Soya Lecithin), Flavouring), Humectant, Glycerol, Sugar, Vegetable Oils (Contains Sunflower, Rapeseed), Flavouring, Dextrose, Salt, Emulsifier (Soya Lecithin)

Additives: E322 Lecithins , E322i Lecithin , E422 Glycerol

As written on the pack

Cereals (47%) (Whole Oats, Rice, Whole Wheat) Oligofructose Syrup, Salted Caramel Pieces (9%) (Sugar, Glucose Syrup, Condensed Milk, Palm Oil, Milk Butter Fat, Salt, Flavouring), Cereal Flours (Rice, Wheat), Glucose Syrup, Plain Chocolate (4%) (Sugar, Cocoa Mass, Cocoa Butter, Emulsifier: Soya Lecithin, Flavouring), Humectant. Glycerol, Sugar, Vegetable Oils (Contains Sunflower and/or Rapeseed), Flavouring, Dextrose, Salt, Emulsifier: Soya Lecithin.

What makes it ultra-processed

Cosmetic additives

Added to change how the food looks, feels or tastes, not to keep it safe. A hallmark of ultra-processed food.

  • E322 Lecithins Lecithins are fatty substances extracted mostly from soybeans, sunflower seeds or eggs, used as emulsifiers to keep fat and water mixed, for example in chocolate.
  • E422 Glycerol Glycerol is a sweet-tasting liquid used to keep products moist and soft.
  • Emulsifier Emulsifiers keep fat and water from separating, giving products a smooth, stable texture over a long shelf life.
  • Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.
  • Humectant Humectants are substances which prevent foods from drying out by counteracting the effect of an atmosphere having a low degree of humidity, or promote the dissolution of a powder in an aqueous medium.

Substances rarely used in home kitchens

Refined or extracted in factories, such as syrups made from starch or isolated proteins. The other hallmark of ultra-processed food.

  • Dextrose Dextrose is pure glucose crystallised from starch-derived syrup.
  • Glucose Glucose, usually listed as glucose syrup, is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
  • Glucose syrup Glucose syrup is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
5 ingredients that would only make it processed

Kitchen staples like sugar, salt and oil. On their own they make a food processed, not ultra-processed.

  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
  • Vegetable fat Vegetable fats are oils that are solid at room temperature, such as palm or coconut fat.
  • Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.
  • Sweet snacks Products in the category "Sweet snacks" are at least group 3.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 35 cereal bars with nuts

From least to most processed, this one ranks 33rd. 77% of the cereal bars with nuts here are ultra-processed.

Ranked by NOVA group, then by the number of ultra-processing signs, additives and ingredients. Our ordering, not part of NOVA.

All 35 cereal bars with nuts, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5010029230109, last edited 2 August 2026), available under the Open Database License. If something is wrong or the recipe has changed, you can correct it there.
  • Photo: Open Food Facts contributors, CC BY-SA 3.0.
  • The NOVA group is an automated estimate from crowdsourced data: a missing or mistyped ingredient can change it.
  • NOVA measures processing, not nutrition. For nutrition, Open Food Facts gives this product a Nutri-Score of C (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.