Is Belvita Breakfast Biscuits Golden Oats 6 Packs ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- 30 ingredients
- 8 additives
Less processed cereals and their products
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Sprouted Rolled Oats
One Degree Organic Foods
1 ingredient · no additives
NOVA group
1
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Old Fashioned Oats
Quaker Oats
1 ingredient · no additives
NOVA group
1
-
Quick 1-Minute Oats
Quaker Oats
1 ingredient · no additives
NOVA group
1
-
Old Fashioned 100% Whole Grain Rolled Oats
Quaker Oats
1 ingredient · no additives
NOVA group
1
Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
cereals 69.6% (cereals 42.5% (rye flakes 17.5%, oat flakes 15.3%, buckwheat 6.7%, spelt flour 1%, barley flour 1%, wheat flour 1%), wheat flour 27.1%), sugar (processing marker), rapeseed oil, cane sugar (processing marker), raising agents (ammonium hydrogen carbonate, sodium hydrogen carbonate, disodium diphosphate (ultra-processing marker)), salt (processing marker), minerals (magnesium carbonate, elemental iron), barley malt syrup, invert sugar syrup (ultra-processing marker), emulsifier (ultra-processing marker) (soya lecithin (ultra-processing marker)), skimmed milk powder (processing marker), vitamins, vitamin e, vitamins, vitamin b1, thiamin
Additives: E322 Lecithins , E322i Lecithin , E450 Diphosphates , E450i Disodium diphosphate , E500 Sodium carbonates , E500ii Sodium hydrogen carbonate , E503 Ammonium carbonates , E503ii Ammonium hydrogen carbonate
As written on the pack
cereals 69,6 % [wholegrain cereals 42,5 % (rye flakes 17,5 %, oat flakes 15,3 %, wholegrain crushed buckwheat 6,7 %, wholegrain spelt flour 1 %, wholegrain barley flour 1 %, wholegrain wheat flour 1 %), wheat flour 27,1 %], sugar, rapeseed oil, cane sugar, raising agents (ammonium hydrogen carbonate, sodium hydrogen carbonate, disodium diphosphate), salt, minerals (magnesium carbonate, elemental iron), barley malt syrup, invert sugar syrup, emulsifier (soya lecithin), skimmed milk powder , vitamins [vitamin e, vitamin b1 (thiamin)], may contain egg and nuts,
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.
- 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.
- E450 Diphosphates Diphosphates are phosphate salts used as raising agents in baking powder, and to hold water in processed meats and cheese.
- Emulsifier Emulsifiers keep fat and water from separating, giving products a smooth, stable texture over a long shelf life.
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.
- Invert sugar Invert sugar is ordinary sugar split into glucose and fructose with acid or enzymes.
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.
- Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
- Milk powder Milk powder is milk with the water evaporated off: a preserved form of a whole food rather than an industrial extract.
Among 5,078 cereals and their products
From least to most processed, this one ranks 4454th. 57% of the cereals and their products here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 7622300555993, last edited 29 June 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.
- General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.