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Is Fiber One CINNAMON COFFEE CAKE Soft Baked Bar ultra-processed?

25 g Pastries Sold in the United States

Pack of Fiber One CINNAMON COFFEE CAKE Soft Baked Bar

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:

  • 34 ingredients
  • 8 additives
  • Nutri-Score C

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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, sugar, chicory root, cinnamon bits (sugar, vegetable oil (palm vegetable oil, palm vegetable oil), kernel, cinnamon, soy lecithin), vegetable oil (canola, palm, palm kernel), sugarcane fiber, fructose, vegetable glycerin, water, contains 2% and less of (egg white), leavening (baking soda, sodium aluminum phosphate), whey powder, corn starch, natural flavor, salt, milk, soy lecithin, xanthan gum, locust bean gum, cinnamon, color added

Additives: E322 Lecithins , E322i Lecithin , E410 Locust bean gum , E415 Xanthan gum , E422 Glycerol , E500 Sodium carbonates , E500ii Sodium hydrogen carbonate , E541 Sodium aluminium phosphate

Also detected, but not matched to one ingredient: E422 Glycerol.

As written on the pack

Wheat flour bleached, sugar, chicory root extract, cinnamon bits (sugar, vegetable oil [palm, palm kernel], cinnamon, soy lecithin), vegetable oil (canola, palm, palm kernel), sugarcane fiber, fructose, vegetable glycerin, water. contains 2% or less of: dried egg white, leavening (baking soda, sodium aluminum phosphate), whey powder, corn starch, natural flavor, salt, nonfat milk solids, soy lecithin, xanthan gum, locust bean gum, cinnamon, color added.

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.

  • 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.
  • E410 Locust bean gum Locust bean gum (carob gum) is a thickener and stabiliser from the seeds of the carob tree.
  • E415 Xanthan gum Xanthan gum is a thickener made by fermenting sugar with the bacterium Xanthomonas campestris.
  • E422 Glycerol Glycerol is a sweet-tasting liquid used to keep products moist and soft.
  • 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.

  • 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.
  • Vegetable fiber Isolated plant fibres, such as inulin, oat fibre or bamboo fibre, are extracted industrially and added to change texture or support "source of fibre" claims.
  • Fructose Fructose is the sugar found naturally in fruit and honey, but as an ingredient it is refined industrially, mostly from corn starch.
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.
  • 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 205 pastries

From least to most processed, this one ranks 164th. 87% of the pastries 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 205 pastries, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0016000509498, last edited 10 July 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 C (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.