Is Kallø Honey Gluten Free Oat Cakes ultra-processed?

Puffed wholegrain rice cakes Sold in the United Kingdom

Yes, it's ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

Colour
Flavouring
E160b Annatto

12 ingredients
3 additives
Nutri-Score A

Less processed puffed wholegrain rice cakes

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 cake (oat flour 59%, oat bran 59%, rice flour, acidity regulator (citric acid)), honey (processing marker) 13%, cane sugar (processing marker), natural honey flavouring (ultra-processing marker), natural vanilla flavouring (ultra-processing marker), colour (ultra-processing marker) (annatto norbixin (ultra-processing marker))

Additives: E160b Annatto , E160bii Annatto norbixin , E330 Citric acid

As written on the pack

Oat cake (59% Gluten free whole grain oat flour and oat bran flour, rice flour, acidity regulator: citric acid), honey (13%), cane sugar, natural honey flavouring, natural vanilla flavouring, colour: annatto norbixin. ALLERGEN ADVICE: May contain milk, soya and sesame seeds.

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.
Colour Colours are added to restore colour lost in processing or to make a product look more appealing.
Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.

2 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.

Honey Honey, used as a sweetener.
Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 14 puffed wholegrain rice cakes

From least to most processed, this one ranks 14th. 21% of the puffed wholegrain rice cakes 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 14 puffed wholegrain rice cakes, least processed first

About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5013665117711, last edited 1 July 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 A (from A, best, to E).
General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.