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Is Pasquier Raspberry Beignets ultra-processed?

Sweet snacks Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Pasquier Raspberry Beignets

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:

  • 27 ingredients
  • 1 additive

Less processed sweet snacks

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

Doughnuts with a raspberry flavoured filling (WHEAT flour 32%), Raspberry filling 28% (sugar, apple puree 8.6% (equivalent of 13.1% apples), concentrated raspberry juice 1% (equivalent of 9.2% raspberries), glucose syrup, water, concentrated lemon juice, thickener (pectins), concentrated elderberry juice, natural flavouring), Sugar-EGGS-Sunflower oil, Leaven 5% (WHEAT flour 3%, water, salt), Rapeseed oil, Water, Yeast-WHEAT fibre, Salt, Psyllium fibre, WHEAT Gluten, WHEAT proteins

Additives: E440 Pectins

As written on the pack

Doughnuts with a raspberry flavoured filling: WHEAT flour 32% - Raspberry filling 28% [sugar, concentrated apple puree 8.6% (equivalent of 13.1% apples) concentrated raspberry juice 1%, (equivalent of 9.2% raspberries), glucose syrup, water, concentrated lemon juice, thickener: pectins, concentrated elderberry juice, natural flavouring]- Sugar-EGGS-Sunflower oil - Leaven 5% (WHEAT flour 3%, water, salt) - Rapeseed oil - Water - Yeast-WHEAT fibre - Salt - Psyllium fibre - WHEAT Gluten and WHEAT proteins.

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.

  • 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.

  • 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.
  • Gluten Wheat gluten, sold as "vital wheat gluten", is the protein washed out of wheat flour.
  • Vegetable fiber Isolated plant fibres, such as inulin, oat fibre or bamboo fibre, are extracted industrially and added to change texture or support "source of fibre" claims.
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.

  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • 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 5,433 sweet snacks

From least to most processed, this one ranks 4020th. 86% of the sweet snacks 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 5,433 sweet snacks, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 3256549996961, last edited 14 April 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.