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Is Lancashire Eccles Cake Ltd Real Lancashire Eccles Cakes ultra-processed?

200g Cakes Sold in the United Kingdom and France

Pack of Lancashire Eccles Cake Ltd Real Lancashire Eccles Cakes

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:

  • 22 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score E

Less processed 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

Vine Fruits (Raisins, Currants), Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin, Wheat Gluten), Butter, Vegetable Oil (Palm Vegetable Oil, Rapeseed Vegetable Oil), Sugar, Invert Sugar Syrup, Water, Margarine, Skimmed Milk Powder, Salt, Baking Powder (Wheat)

As written on the pack

Vine Fruits (Raisins, Currants) (42%), Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin, Wheat Gluten), Butter (Milk) (11%), Vegetable Oil (Palm, Rapeseed), Sugar, Invert Sugar Syrup, Water, Margarine, Skimmed Milk Powder, Salt, Baking Powder (Wheat).

What makes it ultra-processed

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.

  • Gluten Wheat gluten, sold as "vital wheat gluten", is the protein washed out of wheat flour.
  • 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.

  • Butter Butter, the fat churned from cream.
  • 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.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 377 cakes

From least to most processed, this one ranks 50th. 94% of the 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 377 cakes, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5011403997670, last edited 4 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 E (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.