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Is Mars Revels ultra-processed?

205 g Confectioneries Sold in the United Kingdom and France

Pack of Mars Revels

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:

  • 38 ingredients
  • 11 additives

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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, skimmed milk powder, cocoa butter, palm fat, raisins, glucose syrup, cocoa mass, sweetened condensed skimmed milk, milk fat, glucose-fructose syrup, lactose, whey permeate (from milk), barley malt extract, soya lecithin, e492, wheat flour, salt, palm kernel fat, e341, e500, e501, modified starch, palm kernel oil, acidity regulators gs, wheat gluten, palm oil, dextrin, lazing agent (pectins), carotenes, anthocyanins, solids 14%, age adult egetable fats in addition to cocoa butter, check out the website (www.revels.co.uk eal me! 0159 520089 30, 11), #1 slo00

Additives: E1400 Dextrin , E14XX Modified Starch , E160a Carotene , E163 Anthocyanins , E322 Lecithins , E322i Lecithin , E341 Calcium phosphates , E440 Pectins , E492 Sorbitan tristearate , E500 Sodium carbonates , E501 Potassium carbonates

As written on the pack

sugar, skimmed milk powder, cocoa butter, palm fat, raisins, glucose syrup, cocoa mass, sweetened condensed skimmed milk, milk fat, glucose-fructose syrup, lactose, whey permeate (from milk), barley malt extract, emulsifiers (soya lecithin, e492), wheat flour, salt, palm kernel fat, raising agents (e341, e500, e501), modified starch, palm kernel oil, acidity regulators gs (contains celery), wheat gluten, palm oil, dextrin, lazing agent (pectins), colours (carotenes, anthocyanins), e contains milk solids 14% minimum. 28g (11%) 26g (29%) 2.2g (4%) 0.12g (2%) 64g 5.4g 0.29g age adult egetable fats in addition to cocoa butter. check out the website: www.revels.co.uk eal me! 0159 520089 30/04/23 11:50 218 f 1 #1 slo00

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.

  • E1400 Dextrin Dextrin is starch partly broken down by heat or acid, used as a thickener, binder and coating.
  • E14xx Modified Starch Modified starches (E1400 to E1452) are starches treated physically, with enzymes or chemically so that they thicken and hold up to heating, freezing or acidity better than ordinary starch.
  • E160a Carotene Carotenes are orange-yellow pigments, either synthesised or extracted from carrots, algae or palm oil.
  • E163 Anthocyanins Colours are substances which add or restore colour in a food, and include natural constituents of foods and natural sources which are normally not consumed as foods as such and not normally used as characteristic ingredients of 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.
  • E440 Pectins Pectins are gelling agents extracted from citrus peel or apple pomace.
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  • E492 Sorbitan tristearate 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.
  • Modified starch Modified starch is starch altered physically, with enzymes or chemically, so that it thickens, gels or survives freezing and heating better than ordinary starch.

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.
  • Lactose Lactose is milk sugar, crystallised industrially from whey, a by-product of cheese making.
  • Whey Whey is the liquid left over from cheese making, usually dried into a powder and used as a cheap source of milk solids, protein and lactose.
  • Fructose Fructose is the sugar found naturally in fruit and honey, but as an ingredient it is refined industrially, mostly from corn starch.
6 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.
  • 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 1,731 confectioneries

From least to most processed, this one ranks 1656th. 90% of the confectioneries 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 1,731 confectioneries, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5000159520089, last edited 25 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.
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.