Is Assorted fruit snacks ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- 22 ingredients
- 6 additives
- Nutri-Score D
Less processed confectioneries
Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
corn syrup (ultra-processing marker), sugar (processing marker), modified corn starch (ultra-processing marker), pear juice concentrate (ultra-processing marker), apple juice, sweet potato, contains 2% and less of (citric acid), vitamin c (ascorbic acid), fruit pectin (ultra-processing marker), sodium citrate, malic acid, dextrose (ultra-processing marker), vegetable juice, fruit juice, annatto, and turmeric extract (ultra-processing marker), sunflower oilâ€, natural flavor (ultra-processing marker), carnauba wax (ultra-processing marker), †adds a trivial amount of fat
Additives: E100 Curcumin , E296 Malic acid , E330 Citric acid , E331 Sodium citrates , E440 Pectins , E903 Carnauba wax
As written on the pack
corn syrup, sugar, modified corn starch, pear juice concentrate, apple juice concentrate, sweet potato juice concentrate, contains 2% or less of: citric acid, vitamin c (ascorbic acid), fruit pectin, sodium citrate, malic acid, dextrose, color (vegetable juice, fruit juice, annatto extract, and turmeric extract), sunflower oil†, natural flavor, carnauba wax,†adds a trivial amount of fat
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.
- E100 Curcumin 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.
- E440 Pectins Pectins are gelling agents extracted from citrus peel or apple pomace.
- E903 Carnauba wax Carnauba wax comes from the leaves of a Brazilian palm and gives sweets and coated chocolates their shine.
- Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.
- Modified starch Modified starch is starch altered physically, with enzymes or chemically, so that it thickens, gels or survives freezing and heating better than ordinary starch.
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.
- Fruit juice concentrate An ingredient mostly produced industrially and rarely used in home kitchens.
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.
Among 1,731 confectioneries
From least to most processed, this one ranks 1312th. 90% of the confectioneries here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0016000494329, last edited 21 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 D (from A, best, to E).
- General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.