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Is Bliss Salted Caramel Whip Bar ultra-processed?

Bars Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Bliss Salted Caramel Whip Bar

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:

  • 30 ingredients
  • 5 additives
  • Nutri-Score D

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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

Milk Chocolate Flavour Coating 24% (Sugar, Vegetable Fat (Palm, Shea), Skimmed Milk Powder, Fat Reduced Cocoa Powder, Whey Milk Powder, Soya Lecithin, e476), Glucose Syrup, Polydextrose, Water, Sugar, Crisped Rice 6% (Rice Flour, Sugar, Salt), Inulin, Bamboo Fibre, Vegetable Fats (Palm, Palm Kernel), Egg White, Skimmed Milk Powder, Salt 0.62%, e150d, Natural Caramel Flavouring, Flavouring, Sunflower Lecithin

Additives: E1200 Polydextrose , E150d Sulphite ammonia caramel , E322 Lecithins , E322i Lecithin , E476 Polyglycerol polyricinoleate

As written on the pack

Milk Chocolate Flavour Coating 24% [Sugar, Vegetable Fat (Palm, Shea), Skimmed Milk Powder, Fat Reduced Cocoa Powder, Whey Milk Powder, Emulsifiers (Soya Lecithin, E476)], Glucose Syrup, Bulking Agent (Polydextrose), Water, Sugar, Crisped Rice 6% (Rice Flour, Sugar, Salt), Inulin, Bamboo Fibre, Vegetable Fats (Palm, Palm Kernel), Dried Egg White, Skimmed Milk Powder, Salt 0.62%, Colour (Caramel E150d), Natural Caramel Flavouring, Flavouring, Emulsifier (Sunflower Lecithin).

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.

  • E150d Sulphite ammonia caramel Sulphite ammonia caramel is the dark brown colour in colas and many sauces, made by heating sugars with sulphite and ammonia compounds.
  • 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.
  • E476 Polyglycerol polyricinoleate Polyglycerol polyricinoleate (PGPR) is an emulsifier made from castor oil.
  • 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.
  • 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.
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.

  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
  • Vegetable fat Vegetable fats are oils that are solid at room temperature, such as palm or coconut fat.
  • Sweet snacks Products in the category "Sweet snacks" are at least group 3.
  • Milk powder Milk powder is milk with the water evaporated off: a preserved form of a whole food rather than an industrial extract.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 1,328 bars

From least to most processed, this one ranks 1046th. 89% of the bars 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 1,328 bars, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5060250345905, last edited 7 August 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 D (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.