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Is Dove's Farm Ginger oat biscuits ultra-processed?

200g Oatmeal biscuits Sold in the United Kingdom and France

Pack of Dove's Farm Ginger oat biscuits

It's processed, but not ultra-processed

  1. 1 Unprocessed
  2. 2 Kitchen staple
  3. 3 Processed
  4. 4 Ultra-processed

Whole foods combined with:

  • 16 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score D

Less processed sweet snacks

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

oats*, wheat flour (contains ascorbic acid, statutory nutrients Typical values calcium, iron, niacin, thiamin), sugar, palm oil, wheat flour, stem ginger* (stem ginger*, sugar*), barley malt Fat extract, ginger powder*, raising agents

As written on the pack

oats*26%, wheat flour*, (contains ascorbic acid and statutory nutrients Typical values calcium, iron, niacin, thiamin), sugar*, palm oil*, wholemeal wheat flour*, stem ginger*6% (stem ginger*5.4%, sugar*0.6%), barley malt Fat extract*, ginger powder*2%, raising agents

What makes it processed

Culinary ingredients

Kitchen staples like sugar, salt and oil. On their own they make a food processed, not ultra-processed.

  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

Category rules

Open Food Facts puts every product in this category in at least this group.

  • Sweet snacks Products in the category "Sweet snacks" are at least group 3.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 24 oatmeal biscuits

From least to most processed, this one ranks 3rd. 63% of the oatmeal 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 24 oatmeal biscuits, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5011766991216, last edited 17 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.