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Is Marks & Spencers Millionaire's Mini Bites ultra-processed?

270 g Biscuits Sold in the United Kingdom and France

Pack of Marks & Spencers Millionaire's Mini Bites

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:

  • 54 ingredients
  • 9 additives
  • Nutri-Score E

Less processed biscuits

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

Sugar, Crisped Rice, Rice, Sugar, Salt, Barley Malt Extract, e471, Iron, Niacin, Pantothenic Acid, Riboflavins, Thiamin, vitamins, vitamin B6, Folic Acid, Vitamin D, Vitamin B12, Glucose Syrup, Invert Sugar Syrup, Sweetened Condensed Milk (Whole Milk, Sugar, Lactose), Wheatflour (Gluten, Wheatflour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Cocoa Mass, Palm Oil, Cocoa Butter, Dried Whole Milk, Glycerol, Butter, _Wheatflour, Rapeseed Oil, Golden Syrup (Invert Sugar Syrup), Salt, Soya Lecithin, Rapeseed Lecithin, e491, Sodium Bicarbonate, Tartaric Acid, e503, Black Treacle, Skimmed Milk, Tapioca Starch, Barley Malt Extract, Barley Malt Syrup, Wheat Gluten, Flavouring

Additives: E322 Lecithins , E322i Lecithin , E334 L(+)-tartaric acid , E422 Glycerol , E471 Mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids , E491 Sorbitan monostearate , E500 Sodium carbonates , E500ii Sodium hydrogen carbonate , E503 Ammonium carbonates

As written on the pack

Sugar, Crisped Rice (Rice, Sugar, Salt, Barley Malt Extract (contains Gluten), Emulsifier (E471), Iron, Niacin, Pantothenic Acid, Riboflavins, Thiamin, Vitamin B6, Folic Acid, Vitamin D, Vitamin B12), Glucose Syrup, Invert Sugar Syrup, Sweetened Condensed Milk (Whole Milk, Sugar, Lactose (Milk)), Wheatflour (Gluten, Wheatflour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Cocoa Mass, Palm Oil, Cocoa Butter, Dried Whole Milk, Humectant (Glycerol) · Butter (Milk), Wholemeal Wheatflour (contains Gluten), Rapeseed Oil, Golden Syrup (Invert Sugar Syrup), Salt, Emulsifier (Soya Lecithin, Rapeseed Lecithin, E491), Raising Agent (Sodium Bicarbonate, Tartaric Acid, E503), Black Treacle, Dried Skimmed Milk, Tapioca Starch, Barley Malt Extract (contains Gluten) , Barley Malt Syrup (contains Gluten), Wheat Gluten_, Flavouring

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.

  • E322 Lecithins Lecithins are fatty substances extracted mostly from soybeans, sunflower seeds or eggs, used as emulsifiers to keep fat and water mixed, for example in chocolate.
  • E422 Glycerol Glycerol is a sweet-tasting liquid used to keep products moist and soft.
  • E471 Mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids Mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids are made from fats and glycerol.
  • E491 Sorbitan monostearate Emulsifiers are substances which make it possible to form or maintain a homogenous mixture of two or more immiscible phases such as oil and water in a foodstuff.
  • 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.

  • Glucose Glucose, usually listed as glucose syrup, is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
  • Glucose syrup Glucose syrup is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
  • Gluten Wheat gluten, sold as "vital wheat gluten", is the protein washed out of wheat flour.
  • 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.
7 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.

  • Butter Butter, the fat churned from cream.
  • 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.
  • Vegetable fat Vegetable fats are oils that are solid at room temperature, such as palm or coconut fat.
  • Sweet snacks Products in the category "Sweet snacks" are at least group 3.
  • Milk powder Milk powder is milk with the water evaporated off: a preserved form of a whole food rather than an industrial extract.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 1,514 biscuits

From least to most processed, this one ranks 1417th. 83% of the biscuits 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 1,514 biscuits, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 00082372, last edited 24 April 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.