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Is Marks & Spencer Seeded Oatcakes ultra-processed?

200 g e Crackers (Appetizers) Sold in the United Kingdom and France

Pack of Marks & Spencer Seeded Oatcakes

It's processed, but not ultra-processed

  1. 1 Unprocessed
  2. 2 Kitchen staple
  3. 3 Processed
  4. 4 Ultra-processed

Whole foods combined with:

  • 16 ingredients
  • 3 additives
  • Nutri-Score C

Less processed appetizers

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

Oatmeal, Oat Flour (with Wheatflour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Pumpkin Seeds 4%, Sunflower Seeds 4%, Demerara Sugar, Brown Linseed 1%, Sea Salt, Raising Agent (Sodium Bicarbonate), e503, Skimmed Milk

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

As written on the pack

Oatmeal (contains Gluten) (42%) · Defatted Oat Flour (contains Gluten) (28%) · Rapeseed Oil · Wheatflour contains Gluten (with Wheatflour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin) · Pumpkin Seeds (4%) · Sunflower Seeds (4%) · Demerara Sugar · Brown Linseed (1%) · Sea Salt · Raising Agent: Sodium Bicarbonate, E503 · Dried Skimmed Milk.

What makes it processed

Culinary ingredients

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.

Category rules

Open Food Facts puts every product in this category in at least this group.

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

How the NOVA groups work

Among 715 crackers (Appetizers)

From least to most processed, this one ranks 262nd. 61% of the crackers (Appetizers) 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 715 crackers (Appetizers), least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 00964371, last edited 18 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.