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Is Deluxe Salted Caramel All Butter Cookies ultra-processed?

200 g Drop cookies Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Deluxe Salted Caramel All Butter Cookies

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:

  • 25 ingredients
  • 2 additives
  • Nutri-Score E

Less processed drop cookies

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), Salted Butter 23% (Butter, Salt), Sugar, Caramel 9% (Sugar, Glucose Syrup, Salted Butter (Butter, Salt), Coconut Oil, Salt, Natural Flavouring, Colour (Plain Caramel)), Partially Inverted Refiners Syrup, Natural Flavouring, Raising Agent (Ammonium Carbonates)

Additives: E150a Plain caramel , E503 Ammonium carbonates

As written on the pack

Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), 23% Salted Butter (Butter (Milk), Salt), Sugar, 9% Salted Caramel Pieces (Sugar, Glucose Syrup, Salted Butter [Butter (Milk), Salt], Coconut Oil, Salt, Natural Flavouring, Colour: Plain Caramel), Partially Inverted Refiners Syrup, Natural Flavouring, Raising Agent: Ammonium Carbonates.

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.

  • E150a Plain caramel Plain caramel is a brown colour made by heating sugars.
  • Colour Colours are added to restore colour lost in processing or to make a product look more appealing.
  • 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.
  • Glucose syrup Glucose syrup is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
  • Invert sugar Invert sugar is ordinary sugar split into glucose and fructose with acid or enzymes.
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 64 drop cookies

From least to most processed, this one ranks 31st. 94% of the drop cookies 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 drop cookies, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 4056489712435, 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 E (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.