Is Sainsbury's All Butter Flapjack Mini Bites ultra-processed?

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Yes, it's ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

Glucose
Glucose syrup
Invert sugar

11 ingredients
No additives
Nutri-Score E

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Oats 40%, Butter (processing marker) 19% (Cows' Milk), Invert Sugar Syrup (ultra-processing marker), Cows' Milk (Cows' Milk, Sugar (processing marker)), Glucose Syrup (ultra-processing marker), Sugar (processing marker), Salt (processing marker), Cane Molasses (processing marker)

As written on the pack

Oats (40%), Butter (19%) (Cows' Milk), Invert Sugar Syrup, Sweetened Condensed Skimmed Cows' Milk (Skimmed Cows' Milk, Sugar), Glucose Syrup, Sugar, Salt, Cane Molasses.

What makes it ultra-processed

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.

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.

Butter Butter, the fat churned from cream.
Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

How the NOVA groups work

About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 00457842, last edited 29 June 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 E (from A, best, to E).
General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.