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Is M&S Gastropub Sticky Toffee Pudding ultra-processed?

230g Puddings Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of M&S Gastropub Sticky Toffee Pudding

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:

  • 30 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

Sticky Toffee Sauce 40% (Double Cream, Dark Muscovado Sugar, Sugar, Unsalted Butter, Dark Treacle, Cornflour, Cornish Sea Salt, Molasses, Orange Zest), Water (with Wheatflour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Dates 9%, Egg, Dark Muscovado Sugar, Unsalted Butter, Sugar, Natural Colour (Plain Caramel), Orange Zest, Madagascan Vanilla Extract, Raising Agent (Sodium Bicarbonate), Calcium Phosphates, Cornish Sea Salt, Molasses

Additives: E150a Plain caramel , E341 Calcium phosphates , E500 Sodium carbonates , E500ii Sodium hydrogen carbonate

As written on the pack

Sticky Toffee Sauce (40%) (Double Cream (Milk), Dark Muscovado Sugar, Sugar, Unsalted Butter (Milk), Dark Treacle, Cornflour, Cornish Sea Salt, Molasses, Orange Zest), Water, Wheatflour contains Gluten (with Wheatflour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Dates (9%), Pasteurised Egg, Dark Muscovado Sugar, Unsalted Butter (Milk) (3.5%), Sugar, Natural Colour (Plain Caramel), Orange Zest, Madagascan Vanilla Extract, Raising Agent (Sodium Bicarbonate), Calcium Phosphates, Cornish Sea Salt, Molasses.

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.

  • E150a Plain caramel Plain caramel is a brown colour made by heating sugars.
  • Colour Colours are added to restore colour lost in processing or to make a product look more appealing.
2 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.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 95 puddings

From least to most processed, this one ranks 35th. 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 29415830, last edited 20 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.