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Is Flapjax Flapjacks Cherry & Almond Flavour ultra-processed?

120 g Bars Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Flapjax Flapjacks Cherry & Almond Flavour

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:

  • 36 ingredients
  • 10 additives

Less processed bars

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 43%, Margarine (Vegetable Oil (Palm, Rapeseed), Water, Salt, mono- and Diglycerides e471, Natural Flavouring, Annatto e160b, Curcumin e100), Cane Molasses, White Chocolate Flavour Coating 11% (Sugar, Vegetable Oil (Palm Vegetable Oil), Whey Powder, Fortified Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamine), Soya Lecithin e322, Natural Flavouring), Inverted Sugar Syrup, Sugar, Red Candied Cherries 3% (Cherries, Glucose Fructose Syrup, Sugar, Citric Acid e330, Potassium Sorbate e202, Sulphur Dioxide e220, Erythrosine e127), Almond Flavouring 0.3%

Additives: E100 Curcumin , E127 Erythrosine , E160b Annatto , E170 Calcium carbonates , E170i Calcium carbonate , E202 Potassium sorbate , E220 Sulphur dioxide , E322 Lecithins , E330 Citric acid , E471 Mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids

Also detected, but not matched to one ingredient: E100 Curcumin, E160b Annatto, E322 Lecithins, E471 Mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids.

As written on the pack

Oats (43%); Margarine (Vegetable Oil (Palm; Rapeseed); Water; Salt; Emulsifier (Mono-and Diglycerides E471); Natural Flavouring; Colours (Annatto E160b; Curcumin E100)); Cane Molasses; White Chocolate Flavour Coating (11%) (Sugar; Vegetable Oil (Palm); Whey Powder (MILK); Fortified Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour; Calcium Carbonate; Iron; Niacin; Thiamine); Emulsifier (Soya Lecithin E322); Natural Flavouring); Inverted Sugar Syrup; Sugar; Red Candied Cherries (3%) (Cherries; Glucose Fructose Syrup; Sugar; Acidity Regulator (Citric Acid E330); Preservatives (Potassium Sorbate E202; Sulphur Dioxide E220); Colour (Erythrosine E127)); Almond Flavouring (0.3%).

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.

  • E100 Curcumin Colours are substances which add or restore colour in a food, and include natural constituents of foods and natural sources which are normally not consumed as foods as such and not normally used as characteristic ingredients of food.
  • E127 Erythrosine Erythrosine is a synthetic red dye (FD&C Red No. 3 in the US).
  • E160b Annatto Colours are substances which add or restore colour in a food, and include natural constituents of foods and natural sources which are normally not consumed as foods as such and not normally used as characteristic ingredients of food.
  • E170 Calcium carbonates Calcium carbonate is chalk.
  • 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.
  • E471 Mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids Mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids are made from fats and glycerol.
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  • 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.

  • Glucose Glucose, usually listed as 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.
  • 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.

  • E202 Potassium sorbate Preservatives are substances which prolong the shelf-life of foods by protecting them against deterioration caused by micro-organisms and/or which protect against growth of pathogenic micro-organisms.
  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • 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 1,328 bars

From least to most processed, this one ranks 1249th. 89% of the bars 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 1,328 bars, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5060006203046, last edited 5 August 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.
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.