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Is Crownfield Fibre Up Salted Caramel Squares ultra-processed?

5 x 24g/1 x 120g Biscuits Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Crownfield Fibre Up Salted Caramel Squares

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:

  • 47 ingredients
  • 9 additives
  • Nutri-Score D

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, Fructo-Oligosaccharides, Sugar, Caramel Pieces with Salted Butter 11% (Sugar, Skimmed Milk, Glucose Syrup, Salted Butter, Emulsifier (mono- and Diglycrides of Fatty Acids)), Humectant (Glycerol), Wheat Fibre, Caramel Flavour Drizzle 7% (Sugar, Vegetable Oils (Palm Vegetable Oils, Palm Vegetable Oils), Kernel, Whey Powder, Fat-Reduced Cocoa Powder, Emulsifier (Soya Lecithins), Natural Flavouring, Colour (Paprika Extract)), Vegetable Oils (Palm Vegetable Oils, Rapeseed Vegetable Oils, Coconut Vegetable Oils), Egg White Powder, Raising Agents (Diphosphates), Ammonium Carbonates, Sodium Carbonates, Salt, Sugar 0.5%, Emulsifier (Rapeseed Lecithins), Cocoa Powder, Natural Flavourings, Cane Molasses, Thickeners (Xanthan Gum), Locust Bean Gum, Colour (Paprika Extract)

Additives: E160c Paprika extract , E322 Lecithins , E410 Locust bean gum , E415 Xanthan gum , E422 Glycerol , E450 Diphosphates , E500 Sodium carbonates , E503 Ammonium carbonates , E570 Fatty acids

As written on the pack

Wheat Flour, Fructo-Oligosaccharides, Sugar, 11% Caramel Pieces with Salted Butter (Sugar, Condensed Skimmed Milk, Glucose Syrup, Salted Butter (Milk), Emulsifier: Mono-and Diglycrides of Fatty Acids), Humectant: Glycerol; Wheat Fibre, 7% Caramel Flavour Drizzle (Sugar, Vegetable Oils [Palm, Palm Kernel], Whey Powder (Milk), Fat-Reduced Cocoa Powder**, Emulsifier: Soya Lecithins; Natural Flavouring, Colour: Paprika Extract), Vegetable Oils (Palm, Rapeseed, Coconut), Egg White Powder, Raising Agents: Diphosphates, Ammonium Carbonates, Sodium Carbonates; Salt, 0.5% Caramelised Sugar Powder, Emulsifier: Rapeseed Lecithins; Cocoa Powder**, Natural Flavourings, Cane Molasses, Thickeners: Xanthan Gum, Locust Bean Gum; Colour: Paprika Extract.

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.

  • E160c Paprika extract Paprika extract is a red-orange colour extracted from paprika peppers.
  • 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.
  • E410 Locust bean gum Locust bean gum (carob gum) is a thickener and stabiliser from the seeds of the carob tree.
  • E415 Xanthan gum Xanthan gum is a thickener made by fermenting sugar with the bacterium Xanthomonas campestris.
  • 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.
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  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Sweetener Sweeteners give sweetness with few or no calories, many at hundreds of times the strength of sugar.
  • Thickener Thickeners, often gums or modified starches, make liquids more viscous so that a product feels richer than its ingredients alone would make it.

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.
  • Glucose syrup Glucose syrup is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
  • Whey Whey is the liquid left over from cheese making, usually dried into a powder and used as a cheap source of milk solids, protein and lactose.
  • 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.
5 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.
  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • 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.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 1,514 biscuits

From least to most processed, this one ranks 1500th. 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 4056489341147, last edited 27 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.