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Is Asda Biscuits for cheese ultra-processed?

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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
  • 2 additives
  • Nutri-Score E

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Fortified Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin (B3), Thiamin (B1)), Palm Oil, Sugar, Glucose Syrup, Salt, Raising Agents (Ammonium Carbonates, Sodium Carbonates), Wheat Germ, Poppy Seeds, Wheat Starch, Sesame Seeds, Malted Barley Flour, Barley Malt Extract, Wheat Bran, Kibbled Wheat, Kibbled Rye, Sugar Beet Fibre, Egg Powder, Yeast, Whey Powder, Black Pepper, Chives, Flavouring, including cereals containing gluten, flavours, hydrogenated fat, NUTRITION We suggest this product provides 78 servings Typical Values Energy kJ Energy kcal

Additives: E500 Sodium carbonates , E503 Ammonium carbonates

As written on the pack

Fortified Wheat Flour [Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin (B3), Thiamin (B1)], Palm Oil, Sugar, Glucose Syrup, Salt, Raising Agents (Ammonium Carbonates, Sodium Carbonates), Wheat Germ, Poppy Seeds, Wheat Starch, Sesame Seeds, Malted Barley Flour, Barley Malt Extract, Wheat Bran, Kibbled Wheat, Kibbled Rye, Sugar Beet Fibre, Egg Powder, Yeast, Whey Powder (Milk), Black Pepper, Chives, Flavouring. Allergy Advice! for allergens, including cereals containing gluten, see ingredients in bold. May also contain soya, oats and mustard. NO ARTIFICIAL COLOURS, FLAVOURS OR HYDROGENATED FAT. NUTRITION We suggest this product provides 78 servings Typical Values Energy kJ Energy kcal

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.

  • Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.

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.

  • 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.
  • Hydrogenated fat An ingredient mostly produced industrially and rarely used in home kitchens.
  • Whey Whey is the liquid left over from cheese making, usually dried into a powder and used as a cheap source of milk solids, protein and lactose.
  • 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.
3 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.

How the NOVA groups work

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 21141454, last edited 27 March 2026), available under the Open Database License. If something is wrong or the recipe has changed, you can correct it there.
  • 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 E (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.