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Is Alpen De light raspberry rocky road imp ultra-processed?

120g Chocolate cereal bars Sold in the United Kingdom and Ireland

Pack of Alpen De light raspberry rocky road 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:

  • 85 ingredients
  • 11 additives
  • Nutri-Score C

Less processed cereal bars

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 31% (Oats, Rice, Wheat, Malted Barley), Oligofructose Syrup, Milk Chocolate 14% (Sugar, Cocoa Butter, Skimmed Milk Powder, Cocoa Mass#, Milk Powder, Milk Fat, Emulsifier (Soya Lecithin)), Shortbread Biscuit Pieces 6% (Wheat Flour (Wheat, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Vegetable Oils (Palm, Shea Kernel, Rapeseed), Sugar, Invert Sugar Syrup, Starch, Salt, Raising Agents (Sodium, Ammonium Bicarbonates), Emulsifier (Lecithin)), Raspberry Fruity Pieces 5% (Apple Puree, Fructose Glucose Syrup, Raspberry Puree, Glucose Syrup, Sugar, Humectant (Glycerol), Wheat Fibre, Palm Fat, Acidity Regulators (Citric Acid, Malic Acid), Pectin, Colouring food (of Carrot, Blueberry, Blackcurrant), Flavouring), Glucose Syrup, Marshmallows 4% (Glucose Fructose Syrup, Sugar, Dextrose, Gelling Agent (Carrageenan), Starch, Hydrolysed Rice Protein, Flavouring, Colour (Beetroot Red), Stabiliser (Polyphosphate)), Chocolate 4% (Sugar, Cocoa Mass#, Cocoa Butter, Emulsifier (Soya Lecithin), Flavouring), Humectant (Glycerol), Vegetable Oils (Sunflower Vegetable Oils, Rapeseed Vegetable Oils), Sugar, Flavouring, Salt, Emulsifier (Soya Lecithin)

Additives: E162 Beetroot red , E296 Malic acid , E322 Lecithins , E322i Lecithin , E330 Citric acid , E407 Carrageenan , E422 Glycerol , E440 Pectins , E452 Polyphosphates , E503 Ammonium carbonates , E503ii Ammonium hydrogen carbonate

Also detected, but not matched to one ingredient: Hydrolysed proteins.

As written on the pack

Cereals (31%) (Oats, Rice, Wheat, Malted Barley), Oligofructose Syrup, Milk Chocolate (14%) (Sugar, Cocoa Butter*, Skimmed Milk Powder, Cocoa Mass#, Milk Powder, Milk Fat, Emulsifier: Soya Lecithin), Shortbread Biscuit Pieces (6%) (Wheat Flour (Wheat, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Vegetable Oils (Palm, Shea Kernel, Rapeseed), Sugar, Invert Sugar Syrup, Starch, Salt, Raising Agents (Sodium and Ammonium Bicarbonates), Emulsifier: Lecithin), Raspberry Fruity Pieces (5%) (Concentrated Apple Puree, Fructose Glucose Syrup, Raspberry Puree, Glucose Syrup, Sugar, Humectant: Glycerol, Wheat Fibre, Palm Fat, Acidity Regulators (Citric Acid, Malic Acid), Pectin, Colouring food (Concentrate of Carrot, Blueberry, Blackcurrant), Flavouring), Glucose Syrup, Marshmallows (4%) (Glucose Fructose Syrup, Sugar, Dextrose, Gelling Agent: Carrageenan, Starch, Hydrolysed Rice Protein, Flavouring, Colour: Beetroot Red, Stabiliser: Polyphosphate), Chocolate (4%) (Sugar, Cocoa Mass#, Cocoa Butter*, Emulsifier: Soya Lecithin, Flavouring), Humectant: Glycerol, Vegetable Oils (Sunflower and/or Rapeseed), Sugar, Flavouring, 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.

  • E162 Beetroot red Colours are substances which add or restore colour in a food, and include natural constituents of foods and natural sources which are normally not consumed as foods as such and not normally used as characteristic ingredients of 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.
  • E407 Carrageenan Carrageenan is a thickener and gelling agent extracted from red seaweed, used widely in dairy desserts, plant-based drinks and processed meats.
  • E422 Glycerol Glycerol is a sweet-tasting liquid used to keep products moist and soft.
  • E440 Pectins Pectins are gelling agents extracted from citrus peel or apple pomace.
  • E452 Polyphosphates Emulsifiers are substances which make it possible to form or maintain a homogenous mixture of two or more immiscible phases such as oil and water in a foodstuff.
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  • Colour Colours are added to restore colour lost in processing or to make a product look more appealing.
  • 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.
  • Gelling agent Gelling agents such as pectin, gelatine or carrageenan set liquids into gels and stabilise textures.
  • 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.
  • Hydrolysed proteins An ingredient mostly produced industrially and rarely used in home kitchens.
  • Invert sugar Invert sugar is ordinary sugar split into glucose and fructose with acid or enzymes.
  • Fructose Fructose is the sugar found naturally in fruit and honey, but as an ingredient it is refined industrially, mostly from corn starch.
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  • Vegetable fiber Isolated plant fibres, such as inulin, oat fibre or bamboo fibre, are extracted industrially and added to change texture or support "source of fibre" claims.
7 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.
  • Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.
  • 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.
  • Milk powder Milk powder is milk with the water evaporated off: a preserved form of a whole food rather than an industrial extract.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 61 chocolate cereal bars

From least to most processed, this one ranks 60th. 100% of the chocolate cereal bars 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 61 chocolate cereal bars, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5010029229899, last edited 28 July 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.