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Is Sainsbury's Sains burys choco hazelnut squares ultra-processed?

375g Filled cereals Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Sainsbury's Sains burys choco hazelnut squares

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:

  • 36 ingredients
  • 1 additive
  • Nutri-Score D

Less processed extruded cereals

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 Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Chocolate, Hazelnut Filling (Sugar, Rapeseed Oil, Palm Oil, Fat Reduced Cocoa Powder, Hazelnuts, Lecithins, Cocoa Butter, Flavouring), Sugar, Wheat Bran, Maize Grits, Cocoa Powder, Rice Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Salt, Flavouring, Burnt Sugar Syrup, Iron, vitamins, vitamin E, Niacin, Pantothenic Acid, Vitamin B12, Vitamin D, Thiamin, Folic Acid, Riboflavin, Vitamin B6

Additives: E322 Lecithins

As written on the pack

Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Chocolate and Hazelnut Filling (Sugar, Rapeseed Oil, Palm Oil, Fat Reduced Cocoa Powder, Hazelnuts, Lecithins, Cocoa Butter, Flavouring), Sugar, Wheat Bran, Maize Grits, Cocoa Powder, Rice Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Salt, Flavouring, Burnt Sugar Syrup, Iron, Vitamin E, Niacin, Pantothenic Acid, Vitamin B12, Vitamin D, Thiamin, Folic Acid, Riboflavin, Vitamin B6.

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.

  • E322 Lecithins Lecithins are fatty substances extracted mostly from soybeans, sunflower seeds or eggs, used as emulsifiers to keep fat and water mixed, for example in chocolate.
  • Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.
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.
  • Vegetable fat Vegetable fats are oils that are solid at room temperature, such as palm or coconut fat.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 26 filled cereals

From least to most processed, this one ranks 4th. 100% of the filled cereals 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 26 filled cereals, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 00251280, last edited 27 August 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.