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Is Pret Bar ultra-processed?

Bars Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Pret Bar

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:

  • 42 ingredients
  • 5 additives

Less processed bars

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

532367" Oats, Butter, Demerara Sugar (Sugar Beet, Cane Molasses), Sweetened Condensed Milk (Whole Milk, Sugar), Partially Inverted Refiners Syrup, Dried Apricots 5% (Apricots, Rice Flour), Cranberries 4.5% (Sugar, Cranberries, Sunflower Oil), Pumpkin Seeds 4%, Honey, Sultanas 3%, Sunflower Seeds 2.5%, Dried Apple 2.5%, Orange (Fruit Concentrates (Apple Purée, Concentrated Orange Juice), Glycerol, Fructose Glucose Syrup (Wheat), Glucose Syrup, Wheat Fibre, Sugar, Palm Fat, Rice Starch, Pectins, Citric Acid, Flavouring, Antioxidant, Ascorbic Acid, Curcumin), Poppy Seeds, Salt, Orange Zest

Additives: E100 Curcumin , E300 Ascorbic acid , E330 Citric acid , E422 Glycerol , E440 Pectins

As written on the pack

5 065002 532367" Oats (29%), Butter (Milk), Demerara Sugar (Sugar Beet, Cane Molasses), Sweetened Condensed Milk (Whole Milk, Sugar), Partially Inverted Refiners Syrup, Dried Apricots (5%) (Apricots, Rice Flour), Sweetened Dried Cranberries (4.5%) (Sugar, Cranberries, Sunflower Oil), Pumpkin Seeds (4%), Honey, Sultanas (3%), Sunflower Seeds (2.5%), Dried Apple Flakes (2.5%), Orange Pieces (Fruit Concentrates (Concentrated Apple Purée, Concentrated Orange Juice), Humectant: Glycerol; Fructose Glucose Syrup (Wheat), Glucose Syrup, Wheat Fibre, Sugar, Palm Fat, Rice Starch, Gelling Agent: Pectins; Acidity Regulator Citric Acid; Flavouring, Antioxidant. Ascorbic Acid; Colour: Curcumin), Poppy Seeds, Salt, Orange Zest.

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.

  • E100 Curcumin Colours are substances which add or restore colour in a food, and include natural constituents of foods and natural sources which are normally not consumed as foods as such and not normally used as characteristic ingredients of food.
  • E422 Glycerol Glycerol is a sweet-tasting liquid used to keep products moist and soft.
  • 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.

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.
  • Fructose Fructose is the sugar found naturally in fruit and honey, but as an ingredient it is refined industrially, mostly from corn starch.
  • 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.
7 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.
  • Honey Honey, used as a sweetener.
  • 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.
  • Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.
  • Sweet snacks Products in the category "Sweet snacks" are at least group 3.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 1,328 bars

From least to most processed, this one ranks 1162nd. 89% of the bars 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 1,328 bars, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5065002532367, last edited 10 September 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.