Is Island Bakery Oat Crumbles ultra-processed?

125 g Biscuit with a chocolate bar covering Sold in the United Kingdom

It's processed, but not ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Whole foods combined with:

Butter
Honey
Salt
Sugar

14 ingredients
2 additives
Nutri-Score E

Less processed sweet snacks

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 35%, WHEAT Flour (WHEAT Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Butter (processing marker), Sugar (processing marker), Honey (processing marker) 9%, Sea Salt (processing marker), Raising Agent (Ammonium Carbonate, Non)

Additives: E503 Ammonium carbonates , E503i Ammonium carbonate

As written on the pack

OATS 35 %, WHEAT Flour (WHEAT Flour, Calcium Carbonate*, Iron*, Niacin*, Thiamin*), Butter (MILK), Sugar, Honey 9 %, Sea Salt*, Raising Agent*: Ammonium Carbonate. *Non Organic.

What makes it processed

Culinary ingredients

Kitchen staples like sugar, salt and oil. On their own they make a food processed, not ultra-processed.

Butter Butter, the fat churned from cream.
Honey Honey, used as a sweetener.
Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

Category rules

Open Food Facts puts every product in this category in at least this group.

Sweet snacks Products in the category "Sweet snacks" are at least group 3.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 16 biscuit with a chocolate bar covering

From least to most processed, this one ranks 1st. 94% of the biscuit with a chocolate bar covering 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 16 biscuit with a chocolate bar covering, least processed first

About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5060027070153, 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 E (from A, best, to E).
General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.