Is hartleys no added sugar jelly ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- 15 ingredients
- 9 additives
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Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
water, gelling agents (ultra-processing marker) (locust bean gum (ultra-processing marker)), xanthan gum (ultra-processing marker), gellan gum (ultra-processing marker), acid (citric acid), acidity regulator (potassium citrate), colour (ultra-processing marker) (anthocyanins (ultra-processing marker)), flavouring (ultra-processing marker), sweeteners (ultra-processing marker) (aspartame (ultra-processing marker)), acesulfame K (ultra-processing marker)
Additives: E163 Anthocyanins , E330 Citric acid , E332 Potassium citrates , E332ii Tripotassium citrate , E410 Locust bean gum , E415 Xanthan gum , E418 Gellan gum , E950 Acesulfame k , E951 Aspartame
As written on the pack
water, gelling agents: locust bean gum, xanthan gum, gellan gum, acid: citric acid, acidity regulator: potassium citrate; colour: anthocyanins; flavouring, sweeteners: aspartame, acesulfame K.
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.
- E163 Anthocyanins Colours are substances which add or restore colour in a food, and include natural constituents of foods and natural sources which are normally not consumed as foods as such and not normally used as characteristic ingredients of food.
- E410 Locust bean gum Locust bean gum (carob gum) is a thickener and stabiliser from the seeds of the carob tree.
- E415 Xanthan gum Xanthan gum is a thickener made by fermenting sugar with the bacterium Xanthomonas campestris.
- E418 Gellan gum Stabilisers are substances which make it possible to maintain the physico-chemical state of a foodstuff; stabilisers include substances which enable the maintenance of a homogenous dispersion of two or more immiscible substances in a foodstuff, substances which stabilise, retain or intensify an existing colour of a foodstuff and substances which increase the binding capacity of the food, including the formation of cross-links between proteins enabling the binding of food pieces into re-constituted food.
- E950 Acesulfame k Acesulfame K is a synthetic sweetener about 200 times sweeter than sugar, often combined with aspartame or sucralose.
- E951 Aspartame Aspartame is a synthetic sweetener about 200 times sweeter than sugar, used in diet drinks and sugar-free products.
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- Colour Colours are added to restore colour lost in processing or to make a product look more appealing.
- Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.
- Gelling agent Gelling agents such as pectin, gelatine or carrageenan set liquids into gels and stabilise textures.
- Sweetener Sweeteners give sweetness with few or no calories, many at hundreds of times the strength of sugar.
1 ingredient that would only make it processed
Kitchen staples like sugar, salt and oil. On their own they make a food processed, not ultra-processed.
- Sweet snacks Products in the category "Sweet snacks" are at least group 3.
Among 1,732 confectioneries
From least to most processed, this one ranks 1502nd. 90% of the confectioneries here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5060391621739, last edited 26 June 2026), available under the Open Database License. If something is wrong or the recipe has changed, you can correct it there.
- The NOVA group is an automated estimate from crowdsourced data: a missing or mistyped ingredient can change it.
- General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.