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Is Cadbury Roses ultra-processed?

290g Confectioneries Sold in the United Kingdom and Spain

Pack of Cadbury Roses

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:

  • 44 ingredients
  • 2 additives
  • Nutri-Score E

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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

multi stage cooking heolates mlk up, ghirose gyrup, vegetable fats (palm, shea, sunflower), cocoa butter, nww (rom milk), glucose fructose syrup, hazelnuts, emulsifiers, ea442, e471, 0, fat reduced cooa powder, skimmed milk powder, humectant (glyceral), molasses, acid (eitric acid), sodium carbonates, colours, anthocyanins, mycontain other nuth oninate ailk solids 14 % ainimum, milk chocolate (milk solids 20 % minimum moncolate contains vegetable fats in addition to cocoa butter), fa of car of w maundr awne hom cadbury ur lid, pte about oup great quality cadbury products, not completely satisfied? pe contact us hreephone 0800 818181 (uk only), monbleuk po box 2008, birmingham, b30 2pt, mnd heland preephone 1-800 678708, malahide road, coolock, dublin 5, www, bury, co, uk fibre prot salt refe, 8400 trar horer take vou

Additives: E163 Anthocyanins , E471 Mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids

As written on the pack

multi stage cooking heolates mlk up, ghirose gyrup, vegetable fats (palm, shea, sunflower), cocoa butter, nww,(rom milk), glucose fructose syrup, hazelnuts, emulsifiers (ea442, e471, (0, fat reduced cooa powder, skimmed milk powder, humectant (glyceral), molasses, acid (eitric acid), sodium carbonates, colours (anthocyanins, mycontain other nuth oninate ailk solids 14 % ainimum, milk chocolate: milk solids 20 % minimum moncolate contains vegetable fats in addition to cocoa butter , fa of car of w maundr awne hom cadbury ur lid, pte about oup great quality cadbury products, not completely satisfied? pe contact us hreephone 0800 818181 (uk only), monbleuk po box 2008, birmingham, b30 2pt, mnd heland preephone 1-800 678708, malahide road, coolock, dublin 5, www,bury,co,uk fibre prot salt refe (8400 trar horer take vou

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.

  • E163 Anthocyanins 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.
  • E471 Mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids Mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids are made from fats and glycerol.
  • Colour Colours are added to restore colour lost in processing or to make a product look more appealing.
  • Emulsifier Emulsifiers keep fat and water from separating, giving products a smooth, stable texture over a long shelf life.
  • Humectant Humectants are substances which prevent foods from drying out by counteracting the effect of an atmosphere having a low degree of humidity, or promote the dissolution of a powder in an aqueous medium.

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.
  • Fructose Fructose is the sugar found naturally in fruit and honey, but as an ingredient it is refined industrially, mostly from corn starch.
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.
  • 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 1,731 confectioneries

From least to most processed, this one ranks 1119th. 90% of the confectioneries 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 1,731 confectioneries, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 7622210959850, last edited 26 July 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 E (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.