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Is Just Free Ginger Gluten Free Cookies ultra-processed?

150 g Gluten-free biscuits Sold in the United Kingdom and France

Pack of Just Free Ginger Gluten Free Cookies

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:

  • 12 ingredients
  • 2 additives
  • Nutri-Score E

Less processed gluten-free biscuits

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

Oat Flour, Crystallised Ginger 21% (Ginger, Sugar), Sugar, Palm Oil, Tapioca Starch, Oats, Partially Inverted Sugar Syrup, Ground Ginger, Sodium Carbonates, Xanthan Gum

Additives: E415 Xanthan gum , E500 Sodium carbonates

As written on the pack

Gluten Free Oat Flour, 21% Crystallised Ginger (Ginger, Sugar), Sugar, Palm Oil, Tapioca Starch, Gluten Free Oats, Partially Inverted Sugar Syrup, Ground Ginger, Raising Agent: Sodium Carbonates; Stabiliser: Xanthan Gum.

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.

  • E415 Xanthan gum Xanthan gum is a thickener made by fermenting sugar with the bacterium Xanthomonas campestris.

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.

  • Invert sugar Invert sugar is ordinary sugar split into glucose and fructose with acid or enzymes.
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.

  • Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
  • Sweet snacks Products in the category "Sweet snacks" are at least group 3.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 12 gluten-free biscuits

From least to most processed, this one ranks 3rd. 83% of the gluten-free biscuits 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 12 gluten-free biscuits, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 40874227, last edited 8 August 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.