Is Kallo Puffed oat cakes strawberry ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- 23 ingredients
- 2 additives
- Nutri-Score A
Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
Oat cake (oat flour, oat bran, rice flour, acidity regulator (citric acid)), cane sugar (processing marker), strawberry vanilla seasoning 7% (Sugar (processing marker), dextrose (ultra-processing marker), natural flavouring (ultra-processing marker) (milk), rice flour, fructose (ultra-processing marker), beetroot powder, starch (processing marker), sunflower oil (processing marker), acid (malic acid)), rapeseed oil, strawberry powder, natural strawberry flavour (ultra-processing marker), natural vanilla flavouring (ultra-processing marker)
Additives: E296 Malic acid , 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), cane sugar, strawberry vanilla seasoning (7%) [Sugar, dextrose, natural flavouring (milk), rice flour, fructose, beetroot powder, starch, sunflower oil, acid: malic acid], rapeseed oil, strawberry powder, natural strawberry flavour, natural vanilla flavouring. ALLERGEN ADVICE: See ingredients list for allergens in bold. May contain 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.
- Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.
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.
- Fructose Fructose is the sugar found naturally in fruit and honey, but as an ingredient it is refined industrially, mostly from corn starch.
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.
- Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5013665117735, last edited 20 February 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.