Is Essential waitrose wholewheat biscuits ultra-processed?

24 Breakfast cereals fortified with vitamins and chemical elements Sold in the United Kingdom and France

It's processed, but not ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Whole foods combined with:

Salt
Sugar

9 ingredients
No additives
Nutri-Score A

Less processed breakfast cereals fortified with vitamins and chemical elements

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, barley malt extract, sugar (processing marker), salt (processing marker), niacin, iron, riboflavin, thiamin, folic acid

As written on the pack

Wholegrain wheat, barley malt extract, sugar, salt, niacin, iron, riboflavin, thiamin, folic acid

What makes it processed

Culinary ingredients

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.
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 38 breakfast cereals fortified with vitamins and chemical elements

From least to most processed, this one ranks 4th. 71% of the breakfast cereals fortified with vitamins and chemical elements 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 38 breakfast cereals fortified with vitamins and chemical elements, least processed first

About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5000169051658, last edited 27 September 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 A (from A, best, to E).
General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.