Is Dare Maxi Fruits ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- 31 ingredients
- 8 additives
- Nutri-Score D
Less processed biscuits
Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
Date filling (sugars (processing marker) (sugar, glucose-fructose (ultra-processing marker), dates, apple pulp), modified corn starch (ultra-processing marker), salt (processing marker), agar (ultra-processing marker), citric acid, sodium benzoate, caramel, natural flavour (ultra-processing marker)), Wheat flour, Sugars (processing marker) (sugar, glucose-fructose (ultra-processing marker), raisins (ultra-processing marker), fancy molasses, corn, barley malt syrup), Canola, modified palm oil, Rolled oats, Salt (processing marker), Whey powder (ultra-processing marker), Corn starch (processing marker), Baking soda, Potassium sorbate (processing marker), Soya lecithin (ultra-processing marker), Natural flavour (ultra-processing marker)
Additives: E202 Potassium sorbate , E211 Sodium benzoate , E322 Lecithins , E322i Lecithin , E330 Citric acid , E406 Agar , E500 Sodium carbonates , E500ii Sodium hydrogen carbonate
As written on the pack
Date filling (sugars [sugar/glucose-fructose, dates, concentrated apple pulp], modified corn starch, salt, agar, citric acid, sodium benzoate, caramel, natural flavour), Wheat flour, Sugars (sugar/glucose - fructose, crushed raisins, fancy molasses, corn and barley malt syrup), Canola and modified palm oil, Rolled oats, Salt, Whey powder, Corn starch, Baking soda, Potassium sorbate, Soya lecithin, Natural flavour. Contains: Wheat, Barley, Oats, Soya, Milk.
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.
- 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.
- E406 Agar 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.
- 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.
- Glucose Glucose, usually listed as 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.
- Fructose Fructose is the sugar found naturally in fruit and honey, but as an ingredient it is refined industrially, mostly from corn starch.
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.
- E202 Potassium sorbate Preservatives are substances which prolong the shelf-life of foods by protecting them against deterioration caused by micro-organisms and/or which protect against growth of pathogenic micro-organisms.
- 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.
- Sweet snacks Products in the category "Sweet snacks" are at least group 3.
Among 1,514 biscuits
From least to most processed, this one ranks 1293rd. 83% of the biscuits here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0063348004369, last edited 1 April 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.