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Is Sainsbury's taste THE DIFFERENCE PECAN & APPLE GRA ultra-processed?

Cereals with fruits Sold in the United Kingdom

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:

  • 23 ingredients
  • 1 additive
  • Nutri-Score D

Less processed cereals with fruits

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

Oat Flakes 63%, Sugar, Rapeseed Oil, White Chocolate Chunks 4% (Sugar, Cows' Milk, Cocoa Butter, Skimmed Cows' Milk Powder, Emulsifier (Soya Lecithins), Flavouring), Dried Apple 4%, Pecan Nuts 3%, Acacia Honey, Desiccated Coconut, Flavouring, Cassia, Sugar Syrup, Salt, This Sainsbury's product supports more responsible cocoa farming, Rainforest Alliance Certified cocoa is grown with care for people and the environment, For more information (www.ra.org ! Allergy advice)

Additives: E322 Lecithins

As written on the pack

Oat Flakes (63%), Sugar, Rapeseed Oil, White Chocolate Chunks (4%) (Sugar, Whole Cows' Milk Powder, Cocoa Butter*, Skimmed Cows' Milk Powder, Emulsifier: Soya Lecithins; Flavouring), Dried Apple (4%), Pecan Nuts (3%), Acacia Honey, Desiccated Coconut, Flavouring, Cassia, Sugar Syrup Powder, Salt. *This Sainsbury's product supports more responsible cocoa farming. Rainforest Alliance Certified cocoa is grown with care for people and the environment. For more information: www.ra.org ! Allergy advice:

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.
  • Emulsifier Emulsifiers keep fat and water from separating, giving products a smooth, stable texture over a long shelf life.
  • Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.
4 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.
  • Milk powder Milk powder is milk with the water evaporated off: a preserved form of a whole food rather than an industrial extract.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 224 cereals with fruits

From least to most processed, this one ranks 205th. 60% of the cereals with fruits 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 224 cereals with fruits, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5063334028275, last edited 11 June 2026), available under the Open Database License. If something is wrong or the recipe has changed, you can correct it there.
  • 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.