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Is Skinny Crunch Light Salted Caramel ultra-processed?

100 gram Cereal bars Sold in the United Kingdom, France and Germany

Pack of Skinny Crunch Light Salted Caramel

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:

  • 48 ingredients
  • 4 additives
  • Nutri-Score C

Less processed cereal bars

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

Crisped Cereal 23% (Rice Flour, Fortified Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Niacin, Iron, Thiamin), Sugar, Malted Barley Flour, Whey Powder, Rapeseed Oil, Salt, Soya Lecithin), Oats 15%, Oligofructose, Polydextrose, Milk Chocolate Coating 8% (Sugar, Vegetable Fat (Palm), Fat Reduced Cocoa Powder, Whey Powder, Skimmed Milk Powder, Soya Lecithin, Natural Vanilla Flavouring), Water, Glucose Syrup, Caramel 5% (Sugar, Sweetened Condensed Milk (Milk, Sugar), Glucose Syrup, Butter, Fondant (Sugar, Glucose Syrup), Sunflower Lecithin, Natural Flavourings, Salt), Glycerine, Rapeseed Oil, Fat Reduced Cocoa Powder, Natural Flavourings, Natural Sea Salt, Soya Lecithin, Caramelised Sugar Syrup

Additives: E1200 Polydextrose , E322 Lecithins , E322i Lecithin , E422 Glycerol

As written on the pack

Crisped Cereal (23%) [Rice Flour, Fortified Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Niacin, Iron, Thiamin), Sugar, Malted Barley Flour, Whey Powder (Milk), Rapeseed Oil, Salt, Emulsifier (Soya Lecithin)], Oats (15%), Oligofructose, Bulking Agent (Polydextrose), Milk Chocolate Coating (8%) [Sugar, Vegetable Fat (Palm), Fat Reduced Cocoa Powder, Whey Powder (Milk), Skimmed Milk Powder, Emulsifier (Soya Lecithin), Natural Vanilla Flavouring], Water, Glucose Syrup, Caramel Pieces (5%) [Sugar, Skimmed Sweetened Condensed Milk (Milk, Sugar), Glucose Syrup, Butter (Milk), Fondant (Sugar, Glucose Syrup), Emulsifier (Sunflower Lecithin), Natural Flavourings, Salt], Humectant (Glycerine), Rapeseed Oil, Fat Reduced Cocoa Powder, Natural Flavourings, Natural Sea Salt, Emulsifier (Soya Lecithin), Caramelised Sugar Syrup

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.
  • E422 Glycerol Glycerol is a sweet-tasting liquid used to keep products moist and soft.
  • Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.

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.
  • Whey Whey is the liquid left over from cheese making, usually dried into a powder and used as a cheap source of milk solids, protein and lactose.
6 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.
  • Vegetable fat Vegetable fats are oils that are solid at room temperature, such as palm or coconut fat.
  • Sweet snacks Products in the category "Sweet snacks" are at least group 3.
  • 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 488 cereal bars

From least to most processed, this one ranks 344th. 91% of the cereal bars 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 488 cereal bars, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5056315500891, last edited 2 July 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 C (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.