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Is Marks & Spencer Cheddar Cheese & Mixed Seed Cripbread ultra-processed?

210 g Crispbreads Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Marks & Spencer Cheddar Cheese & Mixed Seed Cripbread

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:

  • 21 ingredients
  • 3 additives

Less processed crispbreads

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

Wholewheat Flour, Cheddar Cheese 16% (Cheddar Cheese, Colour (Carotenes), e160), Soya Protein, Dark Brown Linseeds, Pumpkin Seeds, White Sesame Seeds, Rapeseed Oil, Wheat Gluten, Yeast, Salt, Wheatflour (contains 4 Gluten), Malted Barley Flour, Flour Treatment Agent (Ascorbic Acid), Malted Wheatflour, Potato Starch

Additives: E160 Carotenoids , E160a Carotene , E300 Ascorbic acid

As written on the pack

Wholewheat Flour (contains Gluten), Cheddar Cheese (16%) (Cheddar Cheese (Milk) Colour: Carotenes, E160) ,Concentrated Soya Protein, Dark Brown Linseeds, Pumpkin Seeds ,White Sesame Seeds ,Rapeseed Oil, Wheat Gluten ,Yeast, Salt, Wheatflour (contains 4 Gluten) ,Malted Barley Flour (contains Gluten) ,Flour Treatment Agent: Ascorbic Acid ,Malted Wheatflour (contains Gluten), Potato Starch.

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.

  • E160 Carotenoids A food additive authorised for industrial food production.
  • E160a Carotene Carotenes are orange-yellow pigments, either synthesised or extracted from carrots, algae or palm oil.
  • Colour Colours are added to restore colour lost in processing or to make a product look more appealing.

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.

  • Gluten Wheat gluten, sold as "vital wheat gluten", is the protein washed out of wheat flour.
3 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.
  • Cheese Cheese is milk preserved with salt, cultures and rennet.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 86 crispbreads

From least to most processed, this one ranks 83rd. 33% of the crispbreads 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 86 crispbreads, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 29379477, 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.
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.