Is Great Value Peanut Butter Sandwich Cookies 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
- Glucose
- High fructose corn syrup
- Hydrogenated oil
- Fructose
- E150c Ammonia caramel
- and 1 more
- 26 ingredients
- 7 additives
- Nutri-Score E
Less processed biscuits
Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
flour (wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), sugar (processing marker), peanut butter (peanuts, hydrogenated vegetable oil (ultra-processing marker) (cottonseed vegetable oil, rapeseed vegetable oil), and SOYBEAN OIL (processing marker)), palm oil, canola oil, high fructose corn syrup (ultra-processing marker), whole wheat flour, salt (processing marker), corn starch (processing marker), leavening (baking soda, mono- CALCIUM PHOSPHATE), soy lecithin (ultra-processing marker), caramel color, artificial flavor (ultra-processing marker)
Additives: E150c Ammonia caramel , E322 Lecithins , E322i Lecithin , E341 Calcium phosphates , E341i Monocalcium phosphate , E500 Sodium carbonates , E500ii Sodium hydrogen carbonate
As written on the pack
ENRICHED FLOUR (WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID), SUGAR, PEANUT BUTTER (PEANUTS, HYDROGENATED VEGETABLE OIL [COTTONSEED, RAPESEED AND SOYBEAN OIL]), PALM OIL, CANOLA OIL, HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP, WHOLE WHEAT FLOUR, SALT, CORN STARCH, LEAVENING (BAKING SODA, MONO CALCIUM PHOSPHATE), SOY LECITHIN, CARAMEL COLOR, ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR.
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.
- E150c Ammonia caramel Ammonia caramel is a brown colour made by heating sugars with ammonia compounds.
- 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.
- 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.
- High fructose corn syrup High-fructose corn syrup is made from corn starch: enzymes break it down to glucose and convert part of that into fructose, giving a syrup about as sweet as table sugar.
- Hydrogenated oil Hydrogenation turns liquid oil into a solid fat that resists going rancid.
- 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.
- 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 1,514 biscuits
From least to most processed, this one ranks 1275th. 83% of the biscuits here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0078742125961, last edited 11 April 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 E (from A, best, to E).
- General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.