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Is Nestlé Honey & Nut Shredded Wheat ultra-processed?

500g Breakfast cereals rich in fibre Sold in the United Kingdom and France

Pack of Nestlé Honey & Nut Shredded 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:

  • 11 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score A

Less processed breakfast cereals rich in fibre

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

Wheat 84%, Sugar, Nut Premix, Peanuts 9.2%, Desiccated Coconut (Coconut Sugar), Hazelnuts 0.3%, Honey 1.9%, Glucose Syrup, Molasses, Natural Flavourings

As written on the pack

Whole Grain Wheat (84%) Sugar, Nut Premix (Peanuts (9.2%), Desiccated Coconut (Coconut Sugar) Hazelnuts (0.3%), Honey (1.9%), Glucose Syrup, Molasses, Natural Flavourings.

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.
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.

  • Honey Honey, used as a sweetener.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 52 breakfast cereals rich in fibre

From least to most processed, this one ranks 39th. 69% of the breakfast cereals rich in fibre 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 52 breakfast cereals rich in fibre, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5011476102223, last edited 14 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 A (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.