Is Kellogg's Crunchy Nut Clusters Chocolate ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- 26 ingredients
- 5 additives
- Nutri-Score D
Less processed breakfast cereals
Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
Whole Oats, Sugar (processing marker), Milk Chocolate Curls 12% (Sugar (processing marker), Cocoa Mass, Cocoa Butter, Whole Milk Powder (processing marker), Skimmed Milk Powder (processing marker), Emulsifier (ultra-processing marker), Natural Vanilla Flavouring (ultra-processing marker)), Wheat Flour, Maize, Vegetable Oils (processing marker) (Sunflower, Certified Sustainable Palm Oil), Roasted Peanuts 4%, Invert Sugar Syrup (ultra-processing marker), Honey (processing marker) 1%, Glucose Syrup (ultra-processing marker), Salt (processing marker), Barley Malt Extract, Antioxidants (Ascorbyl Palmitate, Alpha Tocopherol), Skimmed Milk Powder (processing marker), Soy Lecithin (ultra-processing marker)
Additives: E304 Fatty acid esters of ascorbic acid , E304i Ascorbyl palmitate , E307 Alpha-tocopherol , E322 Lecithins , E322i Lecithin
As written on the pack
Whole Oats, Sugar, Milk Chocolate Curls (12%) (Sugar, Cocoa Mass, Cocoa Butter, Whole Milk Powder, Skimmed Milk Powder, Emulsifier {Soy Lecithin}, Natural Vanilla Flavouring), Wheat Flour, Maize, Vegetable Oils (Sunflower, Certified Sustainable Palm Oil), Roasted Peanuts (4%), Invert Sugar Syrup, Honey (1%), Glucose Syrup, Salt, Barley Malt Extract, Antioxidants (Ascorbyl Palmitate, Alpha Tocopherol), Skimmed Milk Powder, Soy Lecithin
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.
- E322 Lecithins Lecithins are fatty substances extracted mostly from soybeans, sunflower seeds or eggs, used as emulsifiers to keep fat and water mixed, for example in chocolate.
- Emulsifier Emulsifiers keep fat and water from separating, giving products a smooth, stable texture over a long shelf life.
- 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.
- Glucose Glucose, usually listed as glucose syrup, is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
- Glucose syrup Glucose syrup is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
- Invert sugar Invert sugar is ordinary sugar split into glucose and fructose with acid or enzymes.
6 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.
- Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
- Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
- Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.
- Sweet snacks Products in the category "Sweet snacks" are at least group 3.
- Milk powder Milk powder is milk with the water evaporated off: a preserved form of a whole food rather than an industrial extract.
Among 1,868 breakfast cereals
From least to most processed, this one ranks 1805th. 60% of the breakfast cereals here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5059319022437, last edited 3 June 2026), available under the Open Database License. If something is wrong or the recipe has changed, you can correct it there.
- 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.