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Is Elovena Mjuk havrebar ultra-processed?

180 g Biscuits Sold in Norway

Pack of Elovena Mjuk havrebar

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:

  • 37 ingredients
  • 8 additives
  • Nutri-Score B

Less processed biscuits

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

Fullkornshavre 42%, havrekli 42%, rapsolja, fuktighetsbe, varande medel (glycerol), vitchoklad 7.9% (socker, kakaosmör, mjölkpulver, vasslepulver, emulgeringsmedel (lecitin)), vatten, socker, fiberblandning (kikärter, majs, vatten), modifierad stärkelse, jordgubbar 3.7% (glukos sirap, socker, jordgubbar, förtjockningsmedel (e401)), potatisstärkelse, stärkelsesirap, invertsocker, emulgeringsmedel (lecitin), vanillinsocker, bakpulver (e450i, e500), aromer, salt

Additives: E14XX Modified Starch , E322 Lecithins , E322i Lecithin , E401 Sodium alginate , E422 Glycerol , E450 Diphosphates , E450i Disodium diphosphate , E500 Sodium carbonates

As written on the pack

Fullkornshavre och havrekli (42%), rapsolja, fuktighetsbe - varande medel (glycerol), vitchoklad 7,9% (socker, kakaosmör**, mjölkpulver, vasslepulver, emulgeringsmedel (lecitin)), vatten, socker, fiberblandning (kikärter, majs, vatten), modifierad stärkelse, torkade jordgubbar 3,7% [glukos sirap, socker, jordgubbar, förtjockningsmedel (E401)], potatisstärkelse, stärkelsesirap, invertsocker, emulgeringsmedel (lecitin), vanillinsocker, bakpulver (E450i, E500), aromer, salt

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.

  • E14xx Modified Starch Modified starches (E1400 to E1452) are starches treated physically, with enzymes or chemically so that they thicken and hold up to heating, freezing or acidity better than ordinary starch.
  • 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.
  • E401 Sodium alginate 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.
  • E422 Glycerol Glycerol is a sweet-tasting liquid used to keep products moist and soft.
  • E450 Diphosphates Diphosphates are phosphate salts used as raising agents in baking powder, and to hold water in processed meats and cheese.
  • Emulsifier Emulsifiers keep fat and water from separating, giving products a smooth, stable texture over a long shelf life.
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  • Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.
  • Thickener Thickeners, often gums or modified starches, make liquids more viscous so that a product feels richer than its ingredients alone would make it.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
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.

  • 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.
  • Milk powder Milk powder is milk with the water evaporated off: a preserved form of a whole food rather than an industrial extract.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 1,514 biscuits

From least to most processed, this one ranks 1471st. 83% of the 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 1,514 biscuits, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 6411200002086, last edited 6 February 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 B (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.