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Is Just Crack an Egg Classic Breakfast Scramble Kit ultra-processed?

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Pack of Just Crack an Egg Classic Breakfast Scramble Kit

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:

  • 14 ingredients
  • 3 additives
  • Nutri-Score D

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Potatoes, cheddar cheese (modified cornstarch added to prevent caking, natamycin (natural mold inhibitor)), cooked uncured bacon bits, no nitrates and nitrites added except those naturally occuring in celery juice and sea salt (pork, water, sea salt, sugar, celery juice, cherry), citric acid

Additives: E160b Annatto , E235 Natamycin , E330 Citric acid

Also detected, but not matched to one ingredient: E160b Annatto.

As written on the pack

Potatoes, cheddar cheese ([pasteurized milk, cheese culture, salt, enzymes, annatto (color)], modified cornstarch added to prevent caking, natamycin [a natural mold inhibitor]); cooked uncured bacon bits - no nitrates or nitrites added except those naturally occuring in celery juice and sea salt (pork, water, sea salt, sugar, cultured celery juice, cherry powder); citric 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.

  • E160b Annatto 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.
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.

  • Meals Products in the category "Meals" are at least group 3.
  • Preservative Preservatives slow spoilage by microbes.
  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
  • Cheese Cheese is milk preserved with salt, cultures and rennet.

How the NOVA groups work

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0021000067510, last edited 2 October 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.