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Is Belvita Fruit & Crunch ultra-processed?

225 g Biscuit (cookie) snack w chocolate filling Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Belvita Fruit & 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:

  • 37 ingredients
  • 5 additives
  • Nutri-Score C

Less processed biscuit (cookie) snack w chocolate filling

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

Cereals 55.4% (cereals 28.3% (oatmeal 20.4%, whole wheat flour 7.9%), wheat flour 26.5%, rice flour 0.6%), raisins 14%, sugar, currants 7.4%, vegetable oils (rapeseed vegetable oils, palm vegetable oils), glucose syrup, wheat dextrins, minerals (calcium carbonate, elemental iron), ammonium carbonates, salt, pea protein, soya lecithins, glucose-fructose syrup, flavourings, fruit purees (apple, blueberry, blackcurrant, raspberry, strawberry), apple puree, wheat fibre, glycerol, cinnamon, vitamin B6, pectins, blueberry, carrot extract

Additives: E1400 Dextrin , E322 Lecithins , E422 Glycerol , E440 Pectins , E503 Ammonium carbonates

Also detected, but not matched to one ingredient: E1400 Dextrin.

As written on the pack

Cereals 55.4 % [wholegrain cereals 28.3 % (oatmeal 20.4 %, whole wheat flour 7.9%), wheat flour 26.5 %, rice flour 0.6 %], raisins 14 %, sugar, currants 7.4 %, vegetable oils (rapeseed, palm), glucose syrup, wheat dextrins, minerals (calcium carbonate, elemental iron), raising agent (ammonium carbonates), salt, pea protein, emulsifier (soya lecithins), glucose-fructose syrup, flavourings, concentrated fruit purees (apple, blueberry, blackcurrant, raspberry, strawberry), apple puree, wheat fibre, humectant (glycerol), cinnamon, vitamin B6, gelling agent (pectins), blueberry concentrate, carrot extract.

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.

  • E1400 Dextrin Dextrin is starch partly broken down by heat or acid, used as a thickener, binder and coating.
  • 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.
  • E422 Glycerol Glycerol is a sweet-tasting liquid used to keep products moist and soft.
  • E440 Pectins Pectins are gelling agents extracted from citrus peel or apple pomace.
  • 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.
  • Fructose Fructose is the sugar found naturally in fruit and honey, but as an ingredient it is refined industrially, mostly from corn starch.
  • 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.
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.

  • 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.
  • Sweet snacks Products in the category "Sweet snacks" are at least group 3.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 23 biscuit (cookie) snack w chocolate filling

From least to most processed, this one ranks 22nd. 91% of the biscuit (cookie) snack w chocolate filling 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 23 biscuit (cookie) snack w chocolate filling, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 7622210573599, last edited 8 September 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.