Is Best Express Foods Aussie Bar ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- 21 ingredients
- 3 additives
- Nutri-Score C
Less processed breakfast biscuit
Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
Banana, Walnuts, Invert Cane Sugar (ultra-processing marker), Rolled Oats, Canola Oil, Tapioca Flour (processing marker), Quinoa, Sunflower Seeds, Flaxseed, Pumpkin Seeds, Coconut, Flaxseed Meal, Dried Apples, Oat Flour, Natural Flavor (ultra-processing marker), Chia Seeds, Sugar (processing marker), Salt (processing marker), Cinnamon, Baking Soda, Potassium Sorbate (processing marker)
Additives: E202 Potassium sorbate , E500 Sodium carbonates , E500ii Sodium hydrogen carbonate
As written on the pack
Banana Puree, Walnuts, Invert Cane Sugar, Rolled Oats, Canola Oil, Tapioca Flour, Quinoa, Sunflower Seeds, Flaxseed, Pumpkin Seeds, Shredded Coconut, Flaxseed Meal, Dried Apples, Oat Flour, Natural Flavor, Chia Seeds, Sugar, Salt, Cinnamon, Baking Soda, Potassium Sorbate.
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.
- Invert sugar Invert sugar is ordinary sugar split into glucose and fructose with acid or enzymes.
5 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.
- E202 Potassium sorbate Preservatives are substances which prolong the shelf-life of foods by protecting them against deterioration caused by micro-organisms and/or which protect against growth of pathogenic micro-organisms.
- Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
- Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.
- Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
- Sweet snacks Products in the category "Sweet snacks" are at least group 3.
Among 28 breakfast biscuit
From least to most processed, this one ranks 7th. 82% of the breakfast biscuit here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0731216105783, last edited 28 January 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.