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Is Kelloggs frosties bar ultra-processed?

6 X 25g (150g) Cereal bars Sold in the United Kingdom and France

Pack of Kelloggs frosties bar

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:

  • 36 ingredients
  • 6 additives
  • Nutri-Score D

Less processed cereal bars

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

Toasted maize cereal 39%, maize, sugar, barley malt extract, salt, niacin, iron, vitamins, vitamin B6, riboflavin, thiamin, folic acid, vitamin D, vitamin B12, sweetened condensed skimmed milk 12% (skimmed milk, sugar), glucose syrup, vegetable oils (palm vegetable oils, coconut vegetable oils), starch, invert sugar syrup, sugar, skimmed milk powder 3.5%, fructose, glycerol, sorbitol, whey powder, oligofructose, calcium carbonate, soy lecithins, vanilla extract, ascorbyl palmitate, alpha tocopherol, vitamin D

Additives: E304 Fatty acid esters of ascorbic acid , E304i Ascorbyl palmitate , E307 Alpha-tocopherol , E322 Lecithins , E420 Sorbitol , E422 Glycerol

As written on the pack

Toasted maize cereal (39%) (maize, sugar, barley malt extract, salt, niacin, iron, vitamin B6, riboflavin, thiamin, folic acid, vitamin D, vitamin B12), sweetened condensed skimmed milk (12%) (skimmed milk, sugar), glucose syrup, vegetable oils (palm, coconut) in varying proportions, starch, invert sugar syrup, sugar, skimmed milk powder (3.5%), fructose, humectants (glycerol, sorbitol), whey powder (milk), oligofructose, calcium carbonate, emulsifiers (soy lecithins), vanilla extract, antioxidants (ascorbyl palmitate, alpha tocopherol), vitamin D.

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.
  • E420 Sorbitol Sorbitol is a sugar alcohol used as a sweetener and to keep products moist.
  • E422 Glycerol Glycerol is a sweet-tasting liquid used to keep products moist and soft.

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.
  • Whey Whey is the liquid left over from cheese making, usually dried into a powder and used as a cheap source of milk solids, protein and lactose.
  • Fructose Fructose is the sugar found naturally in fruit and honey, but as an ingredient it is refined industrially, mostly from corn starch.
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.

  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • 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.
  • 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.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 487 cereal bars

From least to most processed, this one ranks 390th. 91% of the cereal bars 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 487 cereal bars, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5000127770065, last edited 27 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 D (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.