Is Marinela Canelita en caja cinnamon cookies box ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- 30 ingredients
- 10 additives
- Nutri-Score D
Less processed biscuits
Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
Wheat flour, sugar (processing marker), vegetable shortening (processing marker) (palm, canola, sunflower, soybean oils (processing marker)), glucose (ultra-processing marker), water, baking soda, calcium sulfate, sodium aluminum sulfate, monocalcium phosphate, calcium carbonate, iodized salt (processing marker), sodium stearoyl lactylate (ultra-processing marker), cinnamon, soy lecithin (ultra-processing marker), ammonium bicarbonate, ferrous fumarate, zinc citrate, vitamin a palmitate, artificial, natural flavor (ultra-processing marker), thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, niacin, folic acid, ferrous sulfate, zinc oxide
Additives: E322 Lecithins , E322i Lecithin , E341 Calcium phosphates , E341i Monocalcium phosphate , E481 Sodium stearoyl-2-lactylate , E500 Sodium carbonates , E500ii Sodium hydrogen carbonate , E503 Ammonium carbonates , E503ii Ammonium hydrogen carbonate , E521 Aluminium sodium sulphate
As written on the pack
Wheat flour, sugar, vegetable shortening (palm, canola, sunflower and soybean oils), glucose, water, baking soda, calcium sulfate, sodium aluminum sulfate, monocalcium phosphate, calcium carbonate, iodized salt, sodium stearoyl lactylate, cinnamon, soy lecithin, ammonium bicarbonate, ferrous fumarate, zinc citrate, vitamin a palmitate, artificial and natural flavor, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, niacin, folic acid, ferrous sulfate, zinc oxide.
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.
- E481 Sodium stearoyl-2-lactylate 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.
- 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.
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.
- Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
- Vegetable fat Vegetable fats are oils that are solid at room temperature, such as palm or coconut fat.
- 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 1,514 biscuits
From least to most processed, this one ranks 931st. 83% of the biscuits here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0074323029604, last edited 8 November 2025), 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 D (from A, best, to E).
- General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.