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Is Costa Mini All Butter Shortbreads ultra-processed?

Shortbread Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Costa Mini All Butter Shortbreads

It's processed, but not ultra-processed

  1. 1 Unprocessed
  2. 2 Kitchen staple
  3. 3 Processed
  4. 4 Ultra-processed

Whole foods combined with:

  • 17 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score E

Less processed sweet snacks

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

Wheat Flour (WHEAT Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Butter, Sugar, Cornflour, Salt, including cereals containing gluten, see ingredients in BOLD CAPITALS, containing cereals (barley, oats), NUTRITION Per Per shortbread % Adult RI INFORMATION (TYPICAL VALUES per shortbread Energy-kJ 2209kJ)

As written on the pack

Wheat Flour (WHEAT Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Butter (MILK) (29%), Sugar, Cornflour, Salt. ALLERGY ADVICE: for allergens, including cereals containing gluten, see ingredients in BOLD CAPITALS. May also contain egg, nuts, soya and other gluten containing cereals (barley, oats). SUITABLE FOR VEGETARIANS NUTRITION Per Per shortbread % Adult RI INFORMATION: 100g (10g) TYPICAL VALUES per shortbread Energy-kJ 2209kJ

What makes it processed

Culinary ingredients

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.
  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

Category rules

Open Food Facts puts every product in this category in at least this group.

  • Sweet snacks Products in the category "Sweet snacks" are at least group 3.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 64 shortbread

From least to most processed, this one ranks 35th. 33% of the shortbread 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 64 shortbread, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5015753002305, last edited 28 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.