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Is Crownfield Crispy Slices Apple Flavoured ultra-processed?

6 x 14.5g slices Biscuits Sold in the United Kingdom and France

Pack of Crownfield Crispy Slices Apple Flavoured

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:

  • 33 ingredients
  • 7 additives
  • Nutri-Score C

Less processed biscuits

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 51.5%, Raisins 19.2%, Sugar, Sunflower Oil, Blackcurrants 4.8%, Apple Filling 4.3% (Glucose Syrup, Dextrose, Humectant (Glycerol), Stabiliser (Cellulose), Apple Juice from Concentrate 4.9%, Modified Starch (Potato, Tapioca), Caramelised Sugar Syrup, Cinnamon, Acid (Citric Acid), Natural Flavouring), Chicory Root Fibre, Inulin, Dextrose, Whole Milk Powder, Natural Flavouring, Raising Agents (Sodium Carbonates), Diphosphates, Ammonium Carbonates, Milk Proteins, Salt, Cinnamon

Additives: E14XX Modified Starch , E330 Citric acid , E422 Glycerol , E450 Diphosphates , E460 Cellulose , E500 Sodium carbonates , E503 Ammonium carbonates

As written on the pack

51.5% Wheat Flour, 19.2% Raisins, Sugar, Sunflower Oil, 4.8% Blackcurrants, 4.3% Apple Flavoured Filling (Glucose Syrup, Dextrose, Humectant: Glycerol; Stabiliser: Cellulose; 4.9% Apple Juice from Concentrate, Modified Starch (Potato, Tapioca), Caramelised Sugar Syrup, Cinnamon, Acid: Citric Acid; Natural Flavouring), Chicory Root Fibre, Inulin, Dextrose, Whole Milk Powder, Natural Flavouring, Raising Agents: Sodium Carbonates, Diphosphates, Ammonium Carbonates; Milk Proteins, Salt, Cinnamon.

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.

  • E14xx Modified Starch Modified starches (E1400 to E1452) are starches treated physically, with enzymes or chemically so that they thicken and hold up to heating, freezing or acidity better than ordinary starch.
  • E422 Glycerol Glycerol is a sweet-tasting liquid used to keep products moist and soft.
  • E450 Diphosphates Diphosphates are phosphate salts used as raising agents in baking powder, and to hold water in processed meats and cheese.
  • E460 Cellulose A food additive used to dissolve, dilute, disperse or otherwise physically modify a food additive or nutrient without altering its function -and without exerting any technological effect itself- in order to facilitate its handling, application or use of the food additive or nutrient.
  • Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.
  • 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.
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  • Modified starch Modified starch is starch altered physically, with enzymes or chemically, so that it thickens, gels or survives freezing and heating better than ordinary starch.

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.

  • Dextrose Dextrose is pure glucose crystallised from starch-derived syrup.
  • 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.
  • Milk proteins Milk proteins are proteins separated from milk, such as caseinates and whey protein concentrates, added to adjust texture or raise protein content.
  • 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.
6 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.
  • Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
  • Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.
  • 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 1,514 biscuits

From least to most processed, this one ranks 1453rd. 83% of the biscuits 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 1,514 biscuits, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 20772741, last edited 8 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 C (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.