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Is Ginsters Cheese & Onion Slice ultra-processed?

170g Friands Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Ginsters Cheese & Onion Slice

It's processed, but not ultra-processed

  1. 1 Unprocessed
  2. 2 Kitchen staple
  3. 3 Processed
  4. 4 Ultra-processed

Whole foods combined with:

  • 25 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score D

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Wheat Flour (Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Potato, West Country Mature Cheddar Cheese, Vegetable Oil (Palm Vegetable Oil, Rapeseed Vegetable Oil), Onion 11%, Water, West Country Single Cream, Cornflour, Salt, Egg, Milk, Tapioca Starch, Mustard, White Wine Vinegar, Honey, Spices, Mustard, Mustard, Garlic

As written on the pack

Wheat Flour (Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Potato, West Country Mature Cheddar Cheese (Milk) (13%), Vegetable Oil (Palm, Rapeseed), Onion (11%), Water, West Country Single Cream (Milk), Cornflour, Salt, Egg, Milk, Tapioca Starch, Mustard, White Wine Vinegar, Honey, Spices, Mustard Flour, Mustard Bran, Garlic Powder.

What makes it processed

Culinary ingredients

Kitchen staples like sugar, salt and oil. On their own they make a food processed, not ultra-processed.

  • Honey Honey, used as a sweetener.
  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.
  • Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.

Category rules

Open Food Facts puts every product in this category in at least this group.

  • Meals Products in the category "Meals" are at least group 3.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 13 friands

From least to most processed, this one ranks 6th. 31% of the friands 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 friands, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5010758306700, last edited 27 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.