Is Glutino Gluten Free Oven Baked Bars Strawberry ultra-processed?

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Yes, it's ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

Flavouring
Fructose
Vegetable fiber
Modified starch
E422 Glycerol
E440 Pectins

25 ingredients
7 additives
Nutri-Score C

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

strawberry filling (sugar (processing marker), apple, strawberries, glycerine (ultra-processing marker), white grape juice concentrate, water, modified tapioca starch (ultra-processing marker), pectin (ultra-processing marker), citric acid, malic acid, natural flavor (ultra-processing marker), tricalcium phosphate, black carrot juice for color, sodium citrate), chick pea flour, potato starch (processing marker), fructose (ultra-processing marker), pear juice concentrate, raisin paste, inulin (ultra-processing marker), canola oil, tapioca starch white rice flour, water, sodium bicarbonate

Additives: E296 Malic acid , E330 Citric acid , E331 Sodium citrates , E422 Glycerol , E440 Pectins , E500 Sodium carbonates , E500ii Sodium hydrogen carbonate

As written on the pack

strawberry flavored filling (sugar, apple powder, strawberries, glycerine, white grape juice concentrate, water, modified tapioca starch, pectin, citric acid, malic acid, natural flavor, tricalcium phosphate, black carrot juice for color, sodium citrate), chick pea flour, potato starch, fructose, pear juice concentrate, raisin paste, inulin, canola oil, tapioca starch white rice flour, water, sodium bicarbonate,

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.

E422 Glycerol Glycerol is a sweet-tasting liquid used to keep products moist and soft.
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.
Modified starch Modified starch is starch altered physically, with enzymes or chemically, so that it thickens, gels or survives freezing and heating better than ordinary starch.

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.

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.

2 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.

Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.
Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

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About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0678523030813, last edited 22 January 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.