Is Sainsbury's Honey Nut Corn Flakes ultra-processed?

500g Corn flakes Sold in the United Kingdom

Yes, it's ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

Dextrose
Glucose

16 ingredients
No additives
Nutri-Score D

Less processed corn flakes

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

Maize 63%, Sugar (processing marker), Peanuts 8%, Dextrose (ultra-processing marker), Barley Malt Extract, Honey (processing marker) 0.4%, Molasses (processing marker), Salt (processing marker), Niacin, Ferric Diphosphate, Riboflavin, vitamins, vitamin B6, Thiamin, Folic Acid, Vitamin B12

As written on the pack

Maize (63%), Sugar, Peanuts (8%), Dextrose, Barley Malt Extract, Honey (0.4%), Molasses, Salt, Niacin, Ferric Diphosphate, Riboflavin, Vitamin B6, Thiamin, Folic Acid, Vitamin B12.

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.

Dextrose Dextrose is pure glucose crystallised from starch-derived syrup.
Glucose Glucose, usually listed as glucose syrup, is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.

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.

Honey Honey, used as a sweetener.
Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 61 corn flakes

From least to most processed, this one ranks 54th. 28% of the corn flakes 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 61 corn flakes, least processed first

About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 00284714, last edited 27 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 D (from A, best, to E).
General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.