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Is Belbake coconut sugar ultra-processed?

1000g Sugars Sold in the United Kingdom and Germany

Pack of Belbake coconut sugar

No, it's a kitchen staple

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

It is pressed or refined from a food and used for cooking, like oil, butter or sugar.

  • 1 ingredient
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score E

Less processed sweeteners

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

Ingredients

coconut sugar

As written on the pack

Organic coconut sugar, traces (nuts, peanuts, sesame)

Why it is in group 2

Category rules

Open Food Facts puts every product in this category in at least this group.

  • Sugars Products in the category "Sugars" are at least group 2.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 99 sugars

From least to most processed, this one ranks 28th. 31% of the sugars 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 99 sugars, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 20360511, last edited 26 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 E (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.