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Is Mott's Variety Pack Fruit Flavored Snacks ultra-processed?

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Pack of Mott's Variety Pack Fruit Flavored Snacks

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:

  • 42 ingredients
  • 5 additives
  • Nutri-Score D

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Assorted fruit (corn syrup), sugar, modified corn starch, pear juice concentrate, apple juice, sweet potato, contains 2% and less of (citric acid), vitamin c (ascorbic acid), fruit pectin, sodium citrate, malic acid, dextrose, color (vegetable juice, fruit juice, annatto, and turmeric extract), sunflower oilâ€, natural flavor, carnauba wax.†adds a trivial amount of fatberry (corn syrup), sugar, modified corn starch, pear juice concentrate, apple juice, sweet potato, contains 2% and less of (citric acid), vitamin c (ascorbic acid), fruit pectin, sodium citrate, malic acid, dextrose, vegetable, fruit juice added for color, sunflower oilâ€, natural flavor, carnauba wax.†adds a trivial amount of fat

Additives: E100 Curcumin , E296 Malic acid , E330 Citric acid , E331 Sodium citrates , E440 Pectins

As written on the pack

Assorted fruit : corn syrup, sugar, modified corn starch, pear juice concentrate, apple juice concentrate, sweet potato juice concentrate. contains 2% or less of: citric acid, vitamin c (ascorbic acid), fruit pectin, sodium citrate, malic acid, dextrose, color (vegetable juice, fruit juice, annatto extract, and turmeric extract), sunflower oil†, natural flavor, carnauba wax.†adds a trivial amount of fatberry : corn syrup, sugar, modified corn starch, pear juice concentrate, apple juice concentrate, sweet potato juice concentrate. contains 2% or less of: citric acid, vitamin c (ascorbic acid), fruit pectin, sodium citrate, malic acid, dextrose, vegetable and fruit juice added for color, sunflower oil†, natural flavor, carnauba wax.†adds a trivial amount of fat

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.

  • E100 Curcumin 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.
  • E440 Pectins Pectins are gelling agents extracted from citrus peel or apple pomace.
  • Colour Colours are added to restore colour lost in processing or to make a product look more appealing.
  • Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.
  • 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.

  • Dextrose Dextrose is pure glucose crystallised from starch-derived syrup.
  • Glucose Glucose, usually listed as glucose syrup, is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
2 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.

  • Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

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About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0016000494343, last edited 17 February 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.