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Is Asda Honey nut crunch ultra-processed?

375 g Breakfast cereals Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Asda Honey nut crunch

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:

  • 29 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score C

Less processed breakfast cereals

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

oat flakes 53%, cornflakes 8% (maize, sugar, salt, barley malt extract), peanuts 8%, sugar, rapeseed oil, cereal crispies 6% (rice flour, fortified wheat flour, wheat flour, calcium carbonate, iron, niacin (b3), thiamin (b1)), barley malt flour, sunflower oil, honey 4%, fructose, dried glucose syrup, sea salt, including cereals containing gluten, flavours, hydrogenated fat, warning

As written on the pack

wholegrain oat flakes (53%), cornflakes (8%) [maize, sugar, salt, barley malt extract], diced peanuts (8%), sugar, rapeseed oil, cereal crispies (6%) [rice flour, fortified wheat flour [wheat flour, calcium carbonate, iron, niacin (b3), thiamin (b1)], barley malt flour, sunflower oil], honey (4%), fructose, dried glucose syrup, sea salt. allergy advice! for allergens, including cereals containing gluten, see ingredients in bold. suitable for vegetarians. may also contain traces of nuts and milk. no artificial colours, flavours or hydrogenated fat. warning

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.
  • Fructose Fructose is the sugar found naturally in fruit and honey, but as an ingredient it is refined industrially, mostly from corn starch.
4 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.

  • Honey Honey, used as a sweetener.
  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
  • Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 1,868 breakfast cereals

From least to most processed, this one ranks 1726th. 60% of the breakfast cereals 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 1,868 breakfast cereals, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5052449168044, 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.
  • 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.