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Is Marks & Spencers Apple & Cinnamon Crunch ultra-processed?

Breakfast cereals Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Marks & Spencers Apple & Cinnamon Crunch

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
  • 1 additive
  • Nutri-Score D

Less processed breakfast cereals

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

Not suitable nut allergy for intéri Élabo Made O Ma Unite M&S Oat Flakes 59%, Sugar Vegetable Oil (Sunflower Vegetable Oil, Rapeseed Vegetable Oil), PO B Cornflakes (Maize Flour Salt), Crisped Rice (Rice Flour, Wheatflour Sugar Malted Barley Salt), Red Apples 3%, Yogurt Coated Cornflakes 3% (Sugar Cocoa Butter, Lactose, Emulsifier (Glucose Syrup Desiccated Maize Dried Low Fat Yogurt, Lecithin Salt Barley Malt Extract)), Coconut Concentrated Apple Juice Natural Flavourings Honey, Sweet Cinnamon (Cassia), Salt Caramelised Sugar Antioxidant (Tocopherol-Rich Extract)

Additives: E306 Tocopherol-rich extract

As written on the pack

Not suitable nut allergy for intéri Élabo Made O Ma Unite M&S Oat Flakes (59%) Sugar Vegetable Oil (Sunflower/Rapeseed). PO B Cornflakes (Maize Flour Salt) Crisped Rice (Rice Flour. Wheatflour Sugar Malted Barley Salt) Dried Red Apples (3%) Yogurt Coated Cornflakes (3%) (Sugar Cocoa Butter. Lactose (Milk) Emulsifier: Glucose Syrup Desiccated Maize Dried Low Fat Yogurt (Milk) Lecithin Salt Barley Malt Extract) Coconut Concentrated Apple Juice Natural Flavourings Honey. Sweet Cinnamon (Cassia) Salt Caramelised Sugar Antioxidant: Tocopherol-Rich Extract.

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.

  • Emulsifier Emulsifiers keep fat and water from separating, giving products a smooth, stable texture over a long shelf life.

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.

  • 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.

  • Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 1,868 breakfast cereals

From least to most processed, this one ranks 1352nd. 60% of the breakfast cereals 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 1,868 breakfast cereals, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 29435982, last edited 30 May 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 D (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.