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Is Mrs Crimble's 6 Big Jam Coconut Rings ultra-processed?

6 240g Sold in the United Kingdom and the United States

Pack of Mrs Crimble's 6 Big Jam Coconut Rings

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:

  • 29 ingredients
  • 4 additives
  • Nutri-Score E

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

coconut 29%, sugar, glucose syrup, fruit filling 12% (glucose fructose syrup, sugar, fruit juice 7%, strawberries, elderberries), water, thickener (pectin), acidity regulators (citric acid), sodium citrate, natural flavouring, egg white, dextrose, potato starch, eggs, edible paper (potato starch, water, sunflower oil, olive oil), rice flour, stabiliser (sorbitol), natural flavouring

Additives: E330 Citric acid , E331 Sodium citrates , E420 Sorbitol , E440 Pectins

As written on the pack

coconut 29%, sugar, glucose syrup, fruit filling 12% [glucose fructose syrup, sugar, fruit juice (7%) [strawberries, elderberries], water, thickener: pectin, acidity regulators: citric acid, sodium citrate, natural flavouring], egg white, dextrose, potato starch, eggs, edible paper (potato starch, water, sunflower oil, olive oil), rice flour, stabiliser: sorbitol, natural 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.

  • E420 Sorbitol Sorbitol is a sugar alcohol used as a sweetener and to keep products moist.
  • E440 Pectins Pectins are gelling agents extracted from citrus peel or apple pomace.
  • Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.
  • Thickener Thickeners, often gums or modified starches, make liquids more viscous so that a product feels richer than its ingredients alone would make it.

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.
  • Glucose syrup Glucose syrup is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
  • Fructose Fructose is the sugar found naturally in fruit and honey, but as an ingredient it is refined industrially, mostly from corn starch.
3 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.
  • Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.

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About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5010822990163, last edited 10 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.
  • 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.