Is Graze Cocoa Orange Oat Boosts ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- Flavouring
- Invert sugar
- Vegetable fiber
- Modified starch
- E14xx Modified Starch
- E322 Lecithins
- and 2 more
- 22 ingredients
- 5 additives
- Nutri-Score C
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Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
Oats 43%, chicory root fibre (ultra-processing marker), vegetable oils (processing marker) (rapeseed vegetable oils, palm vegetable oils), golden syrup (ultra-processing marker), liquid sugar (processing marker), fat-reduced cocoa powder 3%, cacao nibs 2.5%, glycerine (ultra-processing marker), palm fat, modified starch (ultra-processing marker), soya flour, demerara sugar (processing marker), starch (processing marker), sea salt (processing marker), soya lecithin (ultra-processing marker), natural orange flavouring (ultra-processing marker), natural flavouring (ultra-processing marker), citrus fibre (ultra-processing marker), xanthan gum (ultra-processing marker), molasses (processing marker)
Additives: E14XX Modified Starch , E322 Lecithins , E322i Lecithin , E415 Xanthan gum , E422 Glycerol
As written on the pack
Oats (43%), chicory root fibre, vegetable oils (rapeseed, palm**), golden syrup, liquid sugar, fat-reduced cocoa powder (3%), cacao nibs (2.5%), humectant: glycerine, palm fat**, modified starch, soya flour, demerara sugar, starch, sea salt, emulsifier: soya lecithin, natural orange flavouring, natural flavouring, citrus fibre, stabiliser: xanthan gum, molasses.
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.
- E14xx Modified Starch Modified starches (E1400 to E1452) are starches treated physically, with enzymes or chemically so that they thicken and hold up to heating, freezing or acidity better than ordinary starch.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Invert sugar Invert sugar is ordinary sugar split into glucose and fructose with acid or enzymes.
- 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.
- 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.
Among 1,328 bars
From least to most processed, this one ranks 1105th. 89% of the bars here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5055958705465, last edited 5 September 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.