Is Simple Mills Almond Flour Baking Mix Brownie ultra-processed?

12.9 oz Brownies Sold in the United States

It's processed, but not ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Whole foods combined with:

Salt
Starch
Sugar

11 ingredients
2 additives

Less processed sweet snacks

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

Almond flour, coconut sugar (processing marker), chocolate chips (cane sugar (processing marker), cocoa liquor, cocoa butter), dutch cocoa powder, tapioca starch (processing marker), arrowroot, sea salt (processing marker), baking soda

Additives: E500 Sodium carbonates , E500ii Sodium hydrogen carbonate

As written on the pack

Almond flour, organic coconut sugar, chocolate chips (cane sugar, cocoa liquor, cocoa butter), dutch cocoa powder, tapioca starch, arrowroot, sea salt, baking soda.

What makes it processed

Culinary ingredients

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.
Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.
Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

Category rules

Open Food Facts puts every product in this category in at least this group.

Sweet snacks Products in the category "Sweet snacks" are at least group 3.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 29 brownies

From least to most processed, this one ranks 2nd. 93% of the brownies 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 29 brownies, least processed first

About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0856069005513, last edited 14 May 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.