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Is M&s Food all butter cookies with pistachio nuts and almonds ultra-processed?

200 g Almond cookies Sold in the United Kingdom, the Czech Republic and 2 more countries

Pack of M&s Food all butter cookies with pistachio nuts and almonds

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:

  • 13 ingredients
  • 4 additives
  • Nutri-Score E

Less processed almond cookies

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

Salted Butter 24% (Butter, · Salt), Sugar, Pistachio Nuts 14%, Almonds 8%, Golden Syrup (Invert Sugar Syrup), Raising Agent (e450), e503, Sodium Bicarbonate, Skimmed Milk

Additives: E450 Diphosphates , E500 Sodium carbonates , E500ii Sodium hydrogen carbonate , E503 Ammonium carbonates

As written on the pack

Wheatflour contains Gluten (with Wheatflour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, not su nut Niacin, Thiamin) · Salted Butter (24%) (Butter (Milk)· Salt) · Sugar · Nibbed Pistachio Nuts (14%) · Nibbed Almonds (8%) · Golden Syrup (Invert Sugar Syrup) · Raising Agent: E450, E503, Sodium Bicarbonate · Dried Skimmed Milk.

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.
4 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.
  • Sweet snacks Products in the category "Sweet snacks" are at least group 3.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 8 almond cookies

From least to most processed, this one ranks 7th. 75% of the almond cookies 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 8 almond cookies, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 00395496, last edited 29 September 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.