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Is Marks & Spencer Peanut & Raspberry Breakfast Bars ultra-processed?

4 x 38g = 152g Peanut bars Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Marks & Spencer Peanut & Raspberry Breakfast Bars

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:

  • 22 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score C

Less processed peanut bars

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

Chicory Fibre, Peanut Butter 13%, Rice Syrup, Rapeseed Oil, Seeds 7%, Linseed 6%, Peanuts 8%, Sunflower Oats 7%, Brown Rice Flour, Agave Syrup, Pumpkin Soya Protein Isolate, Raspberries 2.5%, Peanut Flour, Tapioca Starch, Flavouring, Rice Bran, Seeds 3%, Sugar, Calcium, Rice Bran, Salt, Vitamin D

As written on the pack

Chicory Fibre, Peanut Butter (13%), Rice Syrup, Rapeseed Oil, Seeds (7%), Linseed (6%), Nibbed Peanuts (8%), Sunflower Gluten Free Oats (7%), Brown Rice Flour, Agave Syrup, Pumpkin Soya Protein Isolate, Freeze-Dried Raspberries (2.5%), Partially Defatted Peanut Flour, Tapioca Starch, Flavouring, Rice Bran, Seeds (3%), Sugar, Calcium, Rice Bran Extract, Salt, Vitamin D.

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.

  • 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.

  • 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.
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.

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

How the NOVA groups work

Among 42 peanut bars

From least to most processed, this one ranks 13th. 90% of the peanut bars 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 42 peanut bars, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 29221257, 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 C (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.