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Is Marks And Spencer Super nut, fruit & seed flapjack ultra-processed?

50g Bars Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Marks And Spencer Super nut, fruit & seed flapjack

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:

  • 20 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score E

Less processed 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

Rolled Oats Unsalted Butter, Golden Syrup (Invert Sugar Syrup), Sweetened Condensed Milk (Milk Sugar), Demerara Sugar Chopped Pecan Nuts 5%, Almonds 5%, Cranberries 5% (Sugar Cranberries Humectant (Glycerol Sunflower Oil)), Blueberries 3% (Dried Blueberries Sugar Sunflower Oil), Brown Linseed Sunflower Seeds Wildflower Honey Poppy Seeds Potato Starch, Not suitable for those with a Nut, Peanut, Wheat allergy and Coeliacs, NUTRITION 1826kJ, 436 8.5g Carb 34.3g Fibr Made in th than one c SC1597 © M&S plc, PO Box 33 CH99 9QS M&S, Irelan PO Box 13 Dublin 2 Ir

As written on the pack

Rolled Oats Unsalted Butter (Milk) (15%) Golden Syrup (Invert Sugar Syrup) Sweetened Condensed Milk (Skimmed Milk Sugar) Demerara Sugar Chopped Pecan Nuts (5%) Chopped Almonds (5%) Sweetened Dried Cranberries (5%) (Sugar Cranberries Humectant: Glycerol Sunflower Oil) Sweetened Dried Blueberries (3%) (Dried Blueberries Sugar Sunflower Oil) Brown Linseed Sunflower Seeds Wildflower Honey Poppy Seeds Potato Starch. . . . . . For allergens see ingredients in bold. Not suitable for those with a Nut, Peanut and Wheat allergy and Coeliacs. • NUTRITION 1826kJ/436 8.5g Carb 34.3g Fibr Made in th than one c SC1597 © M&S plc. PO Box 33 CH99 9QS M&S (Irelan PO Box 13 Dublin 2 Ir Suitable for vegetarians

What makes it ultra-processed

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.

  • Invert sugar Invert sugar is ordinary sugar split into glucose and fructose with acid or enzymes.
  • Lactose Lactose is milk sugar, crystallised industrially from whey, a by-product of cheese making.
1 ingredient that would only make it processed

Kitchen staples like sugar, salt and oil. On their own they make a food processed, not ultra-processed.

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

How the NOVA groups work

Among 1,328 bars

From least to most processed, this one ranks 349th. 89% of the 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 1,328 bars, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 00984584, 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 E (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.