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Is Hifi Cherish Me Choc Orange ultra-processed?

Cereal bars Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Hifi Cherish Me Choc Orange

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:

  • 78 ingredients
  • 14 additives
  • Nutri-Score C

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Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Oligofructose syrup, crisped rice (rice flour, sugar, cocoa powder, rice bran, salt, stabilisers (sodium carbonate, calcium carbonate), rice extract), milk chocolate 11% (sugar, whole milk powder, cocoa butter, cocoa mass, emulsifiers (soya lecithin, polyglycerol polyricinoleate), natural vanilla flavouring), gluten-free oats, glucose syrup, sweetener (maltitol), milk chocolate curls 6% (sugar, cocoa mass, cocoa butter, whole milk powder, skimmed milk powder, emulsifier (sunflower lecithin), natural vanilla flavouring), milk chocolate coating 5% (sugar, vegetable fats (coconut, cocoa butter), whey powder, lactose, fat reduced cocoa powder, emulsifiers (soya lecithin, polyglycerol polyricinoleate), flavouring), dextrose, sweetened condensed milk (full cream milk, sugar), fat reduced cocoa powder (fat reduced cocoa powder, acidity regulator (potassium carbonate)), humectant (glycerol), orange sugar crunch 1% (sugar, water, glucose syrup, fruit from concentrate (radish, safflower), lemon juice from concentrate, natural orange flavouring, acidity regulator (citric acid), glazing agent (beeswax), colour (curcumin)), orange peel 1% (orange peel, glucose fructose syrup, sugar, acidity regulator (citric acid)), natural flavourings, natural orange flavouring

Additives: E100 Curcumin , E170 Calcium carbonates , E170i Calcium carbonate , E322 Lecithins , E322i Lecithin , E330 Citric acid , E422 Glycerol , E476 Polyglycerol polyricinoleate , E500 Sodium carbonates , E500i Sodium carbonate , E501 Potassium carbonates , E501i Potassium carbonate , E901 White and yellow beeswax , E965 Maltitol

As written on the pack

Oligofructose syrup, crisped rice [rice flour, sugar, cocoa powder, rice bran, salt, stabilisers (sodium carbonate, calcium carbonate), rice extract], milk chocolate (11%) [sugar, whole milk powder, cocoa butter, cocoa mass, emulsifiers (soya lecithin, polyglycerol polyricinoleate), natural vanilla flavouring], gluten-free oats, glucose syrup, sweetener (maltitol), milk chocolate curls (6%) [sugar, cocoa mass, cocoa butter, whole milk powder, skimmed milk powder, emulsifier (sunflower lecithin), natural vanilla flavouring], milk chocolate flavoured coating (5%) [sugar, vegetable fats (coconut, cocoa butter), whey powder (milk), lactose (milk), fat reduced cocoa powder, emulsifiers (soya lecithin, polyglycerol polyricinoleate), flavouring], dextrose, sweetened condensed milk (full cream milk, sugar), fat reduced cocoa powder [fat reduced cocoa powder, acidity regulator (potassium carbonate)], humectant (glycerol), orange sugar crunch (1%) [sugar, water, glucose syrup, fruit from concentrate (radish, safflower), lemon juice from concentrate, natural orange flavouring, acidity regulator (citric acid), glazing agent (beeswax), colour (curcumin)], sweetened orange peel (1%) [orange peel, glucose fructose syrup, sugar, acidity regulator (citric acid)], natural flavourings, natural orange flavouring.

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.

  • E100 Curcumin 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.
  • E170 Calcium carbonates Calcium carbonate is chalk.
  • 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.
  • E476 Polyglycerol polyricinoleate Polyglycerol polyricinoleate (PGPR) is an emulsifier made from castor oil.
  • E901 White and yellow beeswax A food additive used to dissolve, dilute, disperse or otherwise physically modify a food additive or nutrient without altering its function -and without exerting any technological effect itself- in order to facilitate its handling, application or use of the food additive or nutrient.
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  • E965 Maltitol Maltitol is a sugar alcohol made from starch, used as a sweetener in "no added sugar" sweets and chocolate.
  • Colour Colours are added to restore colour lost in processing or to make a product look more appealing.
  • Emulsifier Emulsifiers keep fat and water from separating, giving products a smooth, stable texture over a long shelf life.
  • Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.
  • Glazing agent Glazing agents, waxes and shellac for example, coat a surface to make it shiny or stop pieces sticking together.
  • Humectant Humectants are substances which prevent foods from drying out by counteracting the effect of an atmosphere having a low degree of humidity, or promote the dissolution of a powder in an aqueous medium.
  • 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.

  • 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.
  • Glucose syrup Glucose syrup is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
  • Lactose Lactose is milk sugar, crystallised industrially from whey, a by-product of cheese making.
  • Whey Whey is the liquid left over from cheese making, usually dried into a powder and used as a cheap source of milk solids, protein and lactose.
  • 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.
  • 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 488 cereal bars

From least to most processed, this one ranks 484th. 91% of the cereal bars 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 488 cereal bars, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5056594800019, 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.
  • 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.