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Is Lidl HICROWAVES mins 50 sec SERVES Deluxe STICKY TOFFEE ultra-processed?

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Pack of Lidl HICROWAVES mins 50 sec SERVES Deluxe STICKY TOFFEE

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:

  • 45 ingredients
  • 4 additives
  • Nutri-Score E

Less processed puddings

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

אה NO FFICIAL AVOURS GB IE Date sponge topped with sticky toffee sauce Ingredients 66% Date Sponge (Water, Sugar, Dates (Dates, Rice Flour), Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin, Folic Acid), Self Raising Flour (Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin, Folic Acid), Diphosphates, Sodium Carbonates), Butter, Free Range Egg, Reduced Sodium Baking Powder (Diphosphates, Potassium Hydrogen Carbonate, Wheat Flour, Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Folic Acid, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin)), Toffee Sauce 34% (Demerara Sugar, Whipping Cream, Partially Inverted Refiners Syrup, Butter, Salted Butter (Butter, Salt), Water, Cornflour)

Additives: E450 Diphosphates , E500 Sodium carbonates , E501 Potassium carbonates , E501ii Potassium hydrogen carbonate

As written on the pack

אה NO FFICIAL AVOURS GB IE Date sponge topped with sticky toffee sauce Ingredients 66% Date Sponge (Water, Sugar, Chopped Dates [Dates, Rice Flour], Wheat Flour [Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin, Folic Acid], Self Raising Flour [Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin, Folic Acid), Raising Agents: Diphosphates, Sodium Carbonates], Butter (Milk), Free Range Egg, Reduced Sodium Baking Powder [Raising Agents: Diphosphates, Potassium Hydrogen Carbonate; Carrier: Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Folic Acid, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin)]), 34% Toffee Sauce (Demerara Sugar, Whipping Cream (Milk), Partially Inverted Refiners Syrup, Butter (Milk), Salted Butter [Butter (Milk), Salt], Water, Cornflour).

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.

  • E450 Diphosphates Diphosphates are phosphate salts used as raising agents in baking powder, and to hold water in processed meats and cheese.

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.

  • Invert sugar Invert sugar is ordinary sugar split into glucose and fructose with acid or enzymes.
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.

  • Butter Butter, the fat churned from cream.
  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 95 puddings

From least to most processed, this one ranks 36th. 92% of the puddings 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 95 puddings, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 4056489385288, last edited 7 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 E (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.