Is Limited Edition Oreo Peanut Butter Flavour ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- 21 ingredients
- 9 additives
- Nutri-Score E
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Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
WHEAT flour, sugar (processing marker), vegetable oils (processing marker) (palm vegetable oils, sunflower vegetable oils), fat reduced cocoa powder 5.1%, WHEAT starch (processing marker), whey powder (ultra-processing marker), glucose-fructose syrup (ultra-processing marker), potassium hydrogen carbonate, sodium hydrogen carbonate, ammonium hydrogen carbonate, malic acid, salt (processing marker), WHEAT flour, SOYA lecithin (ultra-processing marker), sunflower lecithin (ultra-processing marker), sugar syrup, oligofructose syrup, flavourings (ultra-processing marker), colours (ultra-processing marker)
Additives: E296 Malic acid , E322 Lecithins , E322i Lecithin , E500 Sodium carbonates , E500ii Sodium hydrogen carbonate , E501 Potassium carbonates , E501ii Potassium hydrogen carbonate , E503 Ammonium carbonates , E503ii Ammonium hydrogen carbonate
As written on the pack
WHEAT flour, sugar, vegetable oils (palm, sunflower), fat reduced cocoa powder 5,1%, WHEAT starch, whey powder (MILK), glucose-fructose syrup, raising agents (potassium hydrogen carbonate, sodium hydrogen carbonate, ammonium hydrogen carbonate, malic acid), salt, wholegrain WHEAT flour, emulsifiers (SOYA lecithin, sunflower lecithin), sugar syrup, oligofructose syrup, flavourings, colours.
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.
- Colour Colours are added to restore colour lost in processing or to make a product look more appealing.
- 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.
- 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.
5 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.
Among 99 filled biscuits
From least to most processed, this one ranks 66th. 96% of the filled biscuits here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 7622210449627, last edited 17 March 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.