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Is Nairn's Salted caramel oat biscuits ultra-processed?

200 g Biscuits Sold in the United Kingdom and New Zealand

Pack of Nairn's Salted caramel oat biscuits

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:

  • 19 ingredients
  • 1 additive
  • Nutri-Score D

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

Oats 65%, Sustainable Palm Fruit Oil, Sugar, Partially Inverted Refiners Syrup, Lyles Golden Syrup, Salted Butter Caramel 3% (Sugar, Glucose Syrup, Sweetened Condensed Milk, Salted Butter, Water), Tapioca Starch, Raising Agent (Sodium Carbonates), Sea Salt, Natural Flavouring, including cereals containing gluten, Our factory is nut free and our recipe is wheat and nut free, We cannot guarantee that our ingredients are wheat and nut free

Additives: E500 Sodium carbonates

As written on the pack

Wholegrain Oats (65%), Sustainable Palm Fruit Oil, Sugar, Partially Inverted Refiners Syrup; Lyles Golden Syrup, Salted Butter Caramel Pieces (3%) (Sugar, Glucose Syrup, Sweetened Condensed Milk, Salted Butter (Milk), Water), Tapioca Starch, Raising Agent: Sodium Carbonates, Sea Salt, Natural Flavouring. ALLERGY ADVICE: For allergens, including cereals containing gluten, see ingredients in bold. Our factory is nut free and our recipe is wheat and nut free. We cannot guarantee that our ingredients are wheat and nut free.

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.

  • 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.
  • Invert sugar Invert sugar is ordinary sugar split into glucose and fructose with acid or enzymes.
5 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.
  • Sweet snacks Products in the category "Sweet snacks" are at least group 3.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 1,514 biscuits

From least to most processed, this one ranks 779th. 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 0612322001421, last edited 27 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 D (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.