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Is Bonne Maman Bitter Orange Fine Sliced Marmalade ultra-processed?

370 g Orange jams Sold in the United Kingdom and France

Pack of Bonne Maman Bitter Orange Fine Sliced Marmalade

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:

  • 22 ingredients
  • 6 additives
  • Nutri-Score D

Less processed orange jams

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

Sugar, Dried Whole Milk, Cocoa Butter, Cocoa Mass, Tapioca Dextrin, Lecithins, Natural Colour, Plain Caramel, Curcumin, Fruit, Plant, Vegetable Concentrates (Beetroot, Pumpkin, Apple, Spirulina), Carnauba Wax, Natural Vanilla Flavouring, Coconut Oil, Rapeseed Oil, Acidity Regulator, Citric Acid

Additives: E100 Curcumin , E1400 Dextrin , E150a Plain caramel , E322 Lecithins , E330 Citric acid , E903 Carnauba wax

As written on the pack

Sugar · Dried Whole Milk · Cocoa Butter · Cocoa Mass · Tapioca Dextrin · Emulsifier: Lecithins (Soya) · Natural Colour: Plain Caramel, Curcumin · Fruit, Plant and Vegetable Concentrates (Beetroot, Pumpkin, Apple, Spirulina) · Glazing Agent: Carnauba Wax · Natural Vanilla Flavouring · Coconut Oil · Rapeseed Oil · Acidity Regulator: Citric Acid.

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.

  • E100 Curcumin Colours are substances which add or restore colour in a food, and include natural constituents of foods and natural sources which are normally not consumed as foods as such and not normally used as characteristic ingredients of food.
  • E1400 Dextrin Dextrin is starch partly broken down by heat or acid, used as a thickener, binder and coating.
  • E150a Plain caramel Plain caramel is a brown colour made by heating sugars.
  • 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.
  • E903 Carnauba wax Carnauba wax comes from the leaves of a Brazilian palm and gives sweets and coated chocolates their shine.
  • Colour Colours are added to restore colour lost in processing or to make a product look more appealing.
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  • Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.
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.

  • 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.
  • Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.
  • 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 36 orange jams

From least to most processed, this one ranks 36th. 94% of the orange jams 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 36 orange jams, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 3045320094053, last edited 19 March 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.