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Is Nestlé cerelac HONEY & wheat ultra-processed?

400g Baby foods Sold in the United Kingdom and France

Pack of Nestlé cerelac HONEY & wheat

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:

  • 34 ingredients
  • 3 additives

Less processed baby foods

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

Cereals 53% (Wheat flour, wheat flour), Skimmed milk powder 20%, Full fat milk powder 6.4%, Vegetable oils (Rapeseed Vegetable oils, Sunflower Vegetable oils), Honey 5.5%, Whey powder, Minerals (Calcium carbonate, Ferrous fumarate, Zinc sulphate, Potassium iodide), vitamins, vitamin C, Niacin, vitamin E, Thiamin, vitamin B1, Pantothenic acid, vitamin A, vitamin B6, vitamin K, Folic acid Biotin, vitamin D, Flavouring (Vanillin), Ántioxidants (Tocopherol-rich extract, Ascorbyl palmitate), Culture (Bifidobacterium lactis)

Additives: E304 Fatty acid esters of ascorbic acid , E304i Ascorbyl palmitate , E306 Tocopherol-rich extract

As written on the pack

Cereals 53% (Wheat flour, Hydrolysed wheat flour), Skimmed milk powder 20%, Full fat milk powder 6.4%, Vegetable oils (Rapeseed, Sunflower), Honey 5.5%, Whey powder (milk), Minerals (Calcium carbonate, Ferrous fumarate, Zinc sulphate, Potassium iodide) Vitamins (C, Niacin, E, Thiamin (B1), Pantothenic acid, A, B6, K, Folic acid Biotin, D), Flavouring (Vanillin), Ántioxidants (Tocopherol-rich extract, Ascorbyl palmitate), Culture (Bifidobacterium lactis).

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.

  • 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.
  • Wheat flour An ingredient mostly produced industrially and rarely used in home kitchens.
4 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.

  • Honey Honey, used as a sweetener.
  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.
  • 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 93 baby foods

From least to most processed, this one ranks 84th. 44% of the baby foods 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 93 baby foods, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 7616100756865, last edited 13 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.