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Is Little Moons Caramelised Biscuit & White Chocolate Cheesecake Mochi ultra-processed?

4 x 30 g Cheesecakes Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Little Moons Caramelised Biscuit & White Chocolate Cheesecake Mochi

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:

  • 83 ingredients
  • 11 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

Full fat soft cheese 22% (full fat soft cheese, sea salt), sugar, water, rice flour, mascarpone, speculoos sauce 9%, sugar, vegetable oils and fats (sunflower, cocoa), caramelised biscuit paste (vegetable oils (sunflower vegetable oils, coconut vegetable oils), rice flour, sugar, candy sugar (sucrose, fructose, glucose), raising agent (disodium diphosphate, sodium bicarbonate), corn starch, sunflower lecithin, salt, cinnamon powder), maltodextrins, caramelised sugar, salt, cocoa powder, emulsifier (soya lecithin), flavouring, spices, biscuit 5% (flour blend (brown rice, potato, maize), sugar, palm oil, rice syrup, raising agent (sodium bicarbonate)), trehalose, chicory root fibre, white chocolate 2% (sugar, cocoa butter, whole milk powder, whey powder, lactose, emulsifier (soya lecithin), natural flavouring), rice starch, skimmed milk powder, tapioca starch, caramel paste (glucose syrup, caramel sugar syrup, invert sugar syrup, natural flavouring), salt, stabilisers (xanthan gum, guar gum), emulsifier (soya lecithin), vanilla paste (invert sugar, vanilla extract, water, vanilla pods, thickener (tragacanth gum)), natural flavouring, colour (annatto norbixin), "Trehalose is a source of glucose

Additives: E160b Annatto , E160bii Annatto norbixin , E322 Lecithins , E322i Lecithin , E412 Guar gum , E413 Tragacanth , E415 Xanthan gum , E450 Diphosphates , E450i Disodium diphosphate , E500 Sodium carbonates , E500ii Sodium hydrogen carbonate

As written on the pack

Full fat soft cheese (22%) (full fat soft cheese (milk), sea salt), sugar, water, rice flour, mascarpone (milk), speculoos sauce (9%) (sugar, vegetable oils and fats (sunflower, cocoa), caramelised biscuit paste (vegetable oils (sunflower, coconut), rice flour, sugar, candy sugar syrup (sucrose, fructose, glucose), raising agent (disodium diphosphate, sodium bicarbonate), corn starch, sunflower lecithin, salt, cinnamon powder), maltodextrins, caramelised sugar, salt, cocoa powder, emulsifier (soya lecithin), flavouring, spices), gluten free biscuit crumb (5%) (gluten free flour blend (brown rice, potato, maize), sugar, palm oil, dried rice syrup, raising agent (sodium bicarbonate)), trehalose, chicory root fibre, white chocolate pieces (2%) (sugar, cocoa butter, whole milk powder, whey powder (milk), lactose (milk), emulsifier (soya lecithin), natural flavouring), rice starch, skimmed milk powder, tapioca starch, caramel paste (glucose syrup, caramel sugar syrup, invert sugar syrup, natural flavouring), salt, stabilisers (xanthan gum, guar gum), emulsifier (soya lecithin), vanilla paste (invert sugar, vanilla extract, water, vanilla pods, thickener (tragacanth gum)), natural flavouring, colour (annatto norbixin). "Trehalose is a source of glucose.

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.

  • E160b Annatto Colours are substances which add or restore colour in a food, and include natural constituents of foods and natural sources which are normally not consumed as foods as such and not normally used as characteristic ingredients of 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.
  • E412 Guar gum Guar gum is a thickener ground from the seeds of the guar plant.
  • E413 Tragacanth Emulsifiers are substances which make it possible to form or maintain a homogenous mixture of two or more immiscible phases such as oil and water in a foodstuff.
  • E415 Xanthan gum Xanthan gum is a thickener made by fermenting sugar with the bacterium Xanthomonas campestris.
  • E450 Diphosphates Diphosphates are phosphate salts used as raising agents in baking powder, and to hold water in processed meats and cheese.
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  • Colour Colours are added to restore colour lost in processing or to make a product look more appealing.
  • 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.
  • Thickener Thickeners, often gums or modified starches, make liquids more viscous so that a product feels richer than its ingredients alone would make it.

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.
  • Lactose Lactose is milk sugar, crystallised industrially from whey, a by-product of cheese making.
  • Maltodextrin Maltodextrin is a white powder made by partly breaking down starch.
  • 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.
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  • Vegetable fiber Isolated plant fibres, such as inulin, oat fibre or bamboo fibre, are extracted industrially and added to change texture or support "source of fibre" claims.
  • Fructose Fructose is the sugar found naturally in fruit and honey, but as an ingredient it is refined industrially, mostly from corn starch.
7 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.
  • Cheese Cheese is milk preserved with salt, cultures and rennet.
  • 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 15 cheesecakes

From least to most processed, this one ranks 15th. 100% of the cheesecakes 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 15 cheesecakes, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5027324003840, last edited 27 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.