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Is Harvest Morn Cocoa peanut butter balls ultra-processed?

Extruded cereals Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Harvest Morn Cocoa peanut butter balls

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
  • 4 additives
  • Nutri-Score D

Less processed extruded cereals

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

maize flour 48%, peanut paste 20%, sugar, dextrose, maize starch, maize flour, stabiliser (calcium carbonate), salt, canola oil, barley malt flour, barley malt extract, fat reduced cocoa powder 0.5%, flavouring, raising agents (sodium carbonates), diphosphates, ferrous fumarate, vitamin c, wheat flour, niacin, thiamin, folic acid, riboflavin, vitamins, vitamin b6, vitamin b12, vitamin d

Additives: E170 Calcium carbonates , E170i Calcium carbonate , E450 Diphosphates , E500 Sodium carbonates

As written on the pack

wholegrain maize flour (48%), peanut paste (20%), sugar, dextrose, maize starch, maize flour, stabiliser: calcium carbonate, salt, canola oil, barley malt flour, barley malt extract, fat reduced cocoa powder (0,5%), flavouring, raising agents: sodium carbonates, diphosphates, ferrous fumarate, vitamin c, wheat flour, niacin, thiamin, folic acid, riboflavin, vitamin b6, vitamin b12, vitamin d,

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.

  • E170 Calcium carbonates Calcium carbonate is chalk.
  • E450 Diphosphates Diphosphates are phosphate salts used as raising agents in baking powder, and to hold water in processed meats and cheese.
  • 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.

  • Dextrose Dextrose is pure glucose crystallised from starch-derived syrup.
  • Glucose Glucose, usually listed as glucose syrup, is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
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.
  • Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 373 extruded cereals

From least to most processed, this one ranks 328th. 64% of the extruded cereals 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 373 extruded cereals, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 4088600306735, last edited 27 March 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 D (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.