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Is Gullón Zingy Dark Choc Ginger Oaties ultra-processed?

285 g Digestives covered with chocolate Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Gullón Zingy Dark Choc Ginger Oaties

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:

  • 28 ingredients
  • 9 additives
  • Nutri-Score C

Less processed chocolate biscuits

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

Oats Flakes 26%, Wheat Flour, Dark Chocolate with Sweetener 18% (Cocoa Mass, Sweetener (Maltitol), Cocoa Butter, Anhydrous Milk Fat, Emulsifier (Sunflower Lecithin)), Sweetener (Maltitol), Vegetable Oil 13% (High Oleic Sunflower Oil), Vegetable Fibre, Ginger Powder 2%, Raising Agents (Potassium Hydrogen Carbonate, Ammonium Hydrogen Carbonate), Flavour Enhancer (Potassium Chloride), Emulsifier (Soya Lecithin), Salt, Natural Flavour, Antioxidant (Tocopherol-Rich Extract), Flavours

Additives: E306 Tocopherol-rich extract , E322 Lecithins , E322i Lecithin , E501 Potassium carbonates , E501ii Potassium hydrogen carbonate , E503 Ammonium carbonates , E503ii Ammonium hydrogen carbonate , E508 Potassium chloride , E965 Maltitol

As written on the pack

Oats Flakes 26%, Wheat Flour, Dark Chocolate with Sweetener 18% [ Cocoa Mass, Sweetener (Maltitol), Cocoa Butter, Anhydrous Milk Fat, Emulsifier (Sunflower Lecithin)], Sweetener (Maltitol), Vegetable Oil 13% (High Oleic Sunflower Oil), Vegetable Fibre, Ginger Powder 2%, Raising Agents (Potassium Hydrogen Carbonate and Ammonium Hydrogen Carbonate), Flavour Enhancer (Potassium Chloride), Emulsifier (Soya Lecithin), Salt, Natural Flavour, Antioxidant (Tocopherol-Rich Extract), Flavours. May contain traces of nuts.

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.

  • 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.
  • E965 Maltitol Maltitol is a sugar alcohol made from starch, used as a sweetener in "no added sugar" sweets and chocolate.
  • Emulsifier Emulsifiers keep fat and water from separating, giving products a smooth, stable texture over a long shelf life.
  • Flavour enhancer Flavour enhancers such as monosodium glutamate (E621) strengthen savoury taste without adding a flavour of their own.
  • Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.
  • Sweetener Sweeteners give sweetness with few or no calories, many at hundreds of times the strength of sugar.

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.

  • 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.
3 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.
  • 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 21 digestives covered with chocolate

From least to most processed, this one ranks 18th. 100% of the digestives covered with chocolate 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 21 digestives covered with chocolate, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 8410376069822, last edited 6 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 C (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.