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Is Mother Earth Raspberry & White Choc Baked Oaty Slices ultra-processed?

Cereal bars Sold in Australia

Pack of Mother Earth Raspberry & White Choc Baked Oaty Slices

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:

  • 39 ingredients
  • 5 additives
  • Nutri-Score E

Less processed cereal 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

Oats, Wheat Flour, Butter, Cream, Milk, Salt, Invert Sugar, Sugar, White Choc Chips, Vegetable Fat, Milk, Emulsifier, Soy Lecithin, Natural Flavour, Raspberry Fruit Pieces, Fruit, Raspberry Puree, Concentrated Puree, Apple, Pear, Plum, Concentrated Elderberry Juice, Humectant, Glycerol, Wheat Fibre, Gelling Agent, Pectin, Acid, Citric Acid, Desiccated Coconut, Coconut, Preservative, Whole Egg Powder, White Chocolate, Cocoa Butter, Wheat Bran, Baking Powder, Raising Agents, Natural Flavour

Additives: E322 Lecithins , E322i Lecithin , E330 Citric acid , E422 Glycerol , E440 Pectins

As written on the pack

Wholegrain Oats, Wheat Flour, Butter, Cream, Milk, Salt, Invert Sugar, Sugar, White Choc Chips, Vegetable Fat, Milk Solids, Emulsifier, Soy Lecithin, Natural Flavour, Raspberry Fruit Pieces, Fruit, Raspberry Puree, Concentrated Puree, Apple, Pear, Plum, Concentrated Elderberry Juice, Humectant, Glycerol, Wheat Fibre, Gelling Agent, Pectin, Acid, Citric Acid, Desiccated Coconut, Coconut, Preservative, Whole Egg Powder, White Chocolate Chips, Cocoa Butter, Wheat Bran, Baking Powder, Raising Agents, Natural Flavour

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.
  • E440 Pectins Pectins are gelling agents extracted from citrus peel or apple pomace.
  • Emulsifier Emulsifiers keep fat and water from separating, giving products a smooth, stable texture over a long shelf life.
  • Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.
  • Gelling agent Gelling agents such as pectin, gelatine or carrageenan set liquids into gels and stabilise textures.
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  • Humectant Humectants are substances which prevent foods from drying out by counteracting the effect of an atmosphere having a low degree of humidity, or promote the dissolution of a powder in an aqueous medium.

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.
  • Vegetable fiber Isolated plant fibres, such as inulin, oat fibre or bamboo fibre, are extracted industrially and added to change texture or support "source of fibre" claims.
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.

  • Butter Butter, the fat churned from cream.
  • Preservative Preservatives slow spoilage by microbes.
  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • 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.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 488 cereal bars

From least to most processed, this one ranks 412th. 91% of the cereal 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 488 cereal bars, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 9416050901289, last edited 17 September 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.