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Is Billington's Demerara ultra-processed?

1kg Brown sugars Sold in the United Kingdom

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

natural unrefined cane sugar

As written on the pack

natural unrefined cane sugar

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 11 brown sugars

From least to most processed, this one ranks 4th. 18% of the brown 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 11 brown sugars, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5010651001146, last edited 26 February 2026), available under the Open Database License. If something is wrong or the recipe has changed, you can correct it there.
  • 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.