Is Dare MAXI FRUITS Soft Oatmeal Cookies Strawberry ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- 35 ingredients
- 9 additives
- Nutri-Score E
Less processed biscuits
Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
Strawberry filling (sugars (processing marker) (sugar, glucose-fructose (ultra-processing marker), strawberry puree, apple puree), modified palm oil, canola oil, pectin (ultra-processing marker), citric acid, potassium sorbate (processing marker), locust bean gum (ultra-processing marker), natural flavour (ultra-processing marker), caramel, allura red (ultra-processing marker), sulphites), 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), Baked in a peanut free facility
Additives: E129 Allura red , E202 Potassium sorbate , E322 Lecithins , E322i Lecithin , E330 Citric acid , E410 Locust bean gum , E440 Pectins , E500 Sodium carbonates , E500ii Sodium hydrogen carbonate
As written on the pack
Strawberry filling (sugars [sugar/glucose-fructose, strawberry puree, apple puree], modified palm oil, canola oil, pectin, citric acid, potassium sorbate, locust bean gum, natural flavour, caramel, allura red, sulphites), 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. Baked in a peanut free facility.
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.
- E129 Allura red Allura red AC is a synthetic red azo dye (FD&C Red No. 40 in the US).
- 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.
- E440 Pectins Pectins are gelling agents extracted from citrus peel or apple pomace.
- Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.
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 1353rd. 83% of the biscuits here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0063348004291, last edited 11 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 E (from A, best, to E).
- General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.