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Is Carman's Oat Slice Golden Oat & Coconut ultra-processed?

175 g Cereal bars Sold in Australia

Pack of Carman's Oat Slice Golden Oat & Coconut

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:

  • 18 ingredients
  • 4 additives
  • Nutri-Score E

Less processed cereal bars

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

Oats 16%, Oat Flour 14%, Coconut 14% (Coconut, Preservative (223)), Butter, Brown Sugar, Wheat Flour (Thiamine, Folic Acid), Golden Syrup, Brown Rice Syrup, Grape Juice Concentrate, Raising Agent (Sodium Bicarbonate), Antioxidant (307b)

Additives: E223 Sodium metabisulphite , E307b Concentrated tocopherol , E500 Sodium carbonates , E500ii Sodium hydrogen carbonate

As written on the pack

Whole Grain Oats 16%, Whole Grain Oat Flour 14%, Coconut 14% (Coconut, Preservative [223 (Sulphites)]), Butter (Milk), Brown Sugar, Wheat Flour (Thiamine, Folic Acid), Golden Syrup, Brown Rice Syrup, Grape Juice Concentrate, Raising Agent (Sodium Bicarbonate), Antioxidant (307b).

What makes it ultra-processed

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.
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.

  • Butter Butter, the fat churned from cream.
  • Preservative Preservatives slow spoilage by microbes.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
  • Sweet snacks Products in the category "Sweet snacks" are at least group 3.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 488 cereal bars

From least to most processed, this one ranks 106th. 91% of the cereal 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 488 cereal bars, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 9319133336360, last edited 30 June 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.