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Is Harvest morn Chocolate chip breakfast bar ultra-processed?

5 x 50 g Chocolate chip cookies Sold in the United Kingdom and France

Pack of Harvest morn Chocolate chip breakfast bar

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:

  • 40 ingredients
  • 6 additives
  • Nutri-Score C

Less processed chocolate chip cookies

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

Wheat flour, cereals 19% (buckwheat groats, oat flakes, spelt (wheat), flour, barley flour, wheat flour), chocolate chips 12% (sugar, cocoa mass, cocoa butter, polyglycerol polyricinoleate, sunflower lecithins, flavouring), rapeseed oil, isomaltulose, glycerol, fructo-oligosaccharides, maltitol, sugar, corn starch, rice flour, wheat gluten, flavourings, salt, rapeseed lecithins, malted wheat flour, magnesium oxide, sodium carbonates, ammonium carbonates, egg, skimmed milk powder, wheat starch, iron, citric acid, vitamins, vitamin B6, folic acid

Additives: E322 Lecithins , E330 Citric acid , E422 Glycerol , E500 Sodium carbonates , E503 Ammonium carbonates , E965 Maltitol

As written on the pack

Wheat flour, wholegrain cereals (19%) (buckwheat groats, oat flakes, wholegrain spelt (wheat) flour, wholegrain barley flour, wholegrain wheat flour), chocolate chips (12%) (sugar, cocoa mass, cocoa butter, emulsifiers: polyglycerol polyricinoleate and sunflower lecithins; flavouring), rapeseed oil, isomaltulose, humectant: glycerol; fructo-oligosaccharides, bulking agent: maltitol; sugar, corn starch, rice flour, wheat gluten, flavourings, salt, emulsifier: rapeseed lecithins; malted wheat flour, magnesium oxide, raising agents: sodium carbonates and ammonium carbonates; pasteurised egg, skimmed milk powder, wheat starch, iron, citric acid, vitamin B6 and folic acid

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.
  • E422 Glycerol Glycerol is a sweet-tasting liquid used to keep products moist and soft.
  • E965 Maltitol Maltitol is a sugar alcohol made from starch, used as a sweetener in "no added sugar" sweets and chocolate.
  • 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.

  • Gluten Wheat gluten, sold as "vital wheat gluten", is the protein washed out of wheat flour.
6 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 fat Vegetable fats are oils that are solid at room temperature, such as palm or coconut fat.
  • Sweet snacks Products in the category "Sweet snacks" are at least group 3.
  • Milk powder Milk powder is milk with the water evaporated off: a preserved form of a whole food rather than an industrial extract.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 50 chocolate chip cookies

From least to most processed, this one ranks 26th. 92% of the chocolate chip cookies 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 50 chocolate chip cookies, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 4088600214078, last edited 8 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.