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Is Frusli apple & cinnamon ultra-processed?

180 g Apple cereal bars Sold in the United Kingdom and France

Pack of Frusli apple & cinnamon

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:

  • 25 ingredients
  • 4 additives
  • Nutri-Score D

Less processed apple cereal 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

OAT Flakes 37%, Dried Fruit, Sultanas, Apple 6%, Cinnamon 6% (Apple Puree 2.5%, Fructose Syrup, Sugar, Rice Flour, Apple Fibre, Citric Acid, Tri Potassium Citrate, Cocoa Butter, Cinnamon Powder, Pectin, Natural Flavouring, Citrus Fibre), Dried Apple 6%, Glucose Syrup, OAT Flour, Sugar, Honey, Sunflower Oil, Rice Flour, hazelnuts

Additives: E330 Citric acid , E332 Potassium citrates , E332ii Tripotassium citrate , E440 Pectins

As written on the pack

Wholegrain OAT Flakes (37%), Dried Fruit (Sultanas, Apple & Cinnamon Puree Pieces (6%) (Apple Puree Concentrate (2.5%), Fructose Syrup, Sugar, Rice Flour, Apple Fibre, Acidity Regulators (Citric Acid, Tri Potassium Citrate), Cocoa Butter, Cinnamon Powder, Gelling Agent (Pectin), Natural Flavouring, Citrus Fibre), Dried Apple Slices (6%)), Glucose Syrup, Wholegrain OAT Flour, Sugar, Honey, Sunflower Oil, Rice Flour, Chopped Roasted HAZELNUTS.

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.

  • 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.

  • 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.
  • Fructose Fructose is the sugar found naturally in fruit and honey, but as an ingredient it is refined industrially, mostly from corn starch.
  • 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.
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.

  • Honey Honey, used as a sweetener.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
  • Vegetable fat Vegetable fats are oils that are solid at room temperature, such as palm or coconut fat.
  • 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 13 apple cereal bars

From least to most processed, this one ranks 7th. 69% of the apple cereal 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 13 apple cereal bars, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5010477333858, last edited 13 March 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 D (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.