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Is Earth's Best Organic sesame street sunny day toddler snack ultra-processed?

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Pack of Earth's Best Organic sesame street sunny day toddler snack

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:

  • 44 ingredients
  • 7 additives
  • Nutri-Score E

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

enriched wheat flour (wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), apple filling (cane sugar, brown rice syrup, apple, rice starch, evaporated apples, water, apple juice, natural flavors, pectin, cinnamon, citric acid), invert cane sugar, evaporated cane sugar, water, sunflower, canola oil, calcium carbonate, honey, oat flour, corn flour, butter flavor, natural flavors, baking soda, wheat bran, cream of tartar, acacia gum, sea salt, vitamin mix (niacinamide, cyanocobalamin, pyridoxine hydrochloride, riboflavin, thiamine hydrochloride, folic acid), zinc oxide, reduced iron

Additives: E330 Citric acid , E336 Potassium tartrates , E336i Monopotassium tartrate , E414 Acacia gum , E440 Pectins , E500 Sodium carbonates , E500ii Sodium hydrogen carbonate

As written on the pack

Organic enriched wheat flour (wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), organic apple filling (organic cane sugar, organic brown rice syrup, organic apple powder, organic rice starch, organic evaporated apples, water, organic apple juice concentrate, natural flavors, pectin, organic cinnamon, citric acid), organic invert cane sugar, organic evaporated cane sugar, water, organic sunflower and/or organic canola oil, calcium carbonate, organic honey, organic oat flour, organic corn flour, organic butter flavor (milk), natural flavors, baking soda, organic wheat bran, cream of tartar, organic acacia gum, sea salt, vitamin mix (niacinamide, cyanocobalamin, pyridoxine hydrochloride, riboflavin, thiamine hydrochloride, folic acid), zinc oxide, reduced iron.

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.

  • E414 Acacia gum Gum arabic (acacia gum) is the hardened sap of acacia trees, used to stabilise flavour emulsions in soft drinks and to coat sweets.
  • 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.

  • Invert sugar Invert sugar is ordinary sugar split into glucose and fructose with acid or enzymes.
4 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.

  • Honey Honey, used as a sweetener.
  • 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.

How the NOVA groups work

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0023923201903, last edited 30 January 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.