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Is Skinny Dream Rocky Road ultra-processed?

5 x 20 g Protein bars Sold in the United Kingdom and Ireland

Pack of Skinny Dream Rocky Road

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:

  • 50 ingredients
  • 11 additives

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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

Oligofructose, Rice Flour, Milk Chocolate 11% (Sugar, Cocoa Butter, Cocoa Mass, Skimmed Milk Powder, Whey Powder, Lactose, Anhydrous Milk Fat, Soya Lecithin, Polyglycerol Polyricinoleate, Natural Vanilla Flavouring), Polydextrose, Oats 6%, Glycerine, Marshmallows 6% (Glucose-Fructose Syrup, Sugar, Water, Pork Gelatine, Maize Starch, Beetroot Red, Natural Flavouring), Palm Oil, Sugar, Glucose Syrup, Fat Reduced Cocoa Powder, Fortified Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Niacin, Iron, Thiamin), Honeycomb Pieces 1.5% (Sugar, Glucose Syrup, Palm Oil, Sodium Bicarbonate), Natural Flavourings, Whey Powder, Raspberries 0.4%, Soya Lecithin, Skimmed Milk Powder, Malted Barley Flour, Rapeseed Oil, Salt, ALLERGEN INFORMATION For allergens, including cereals containing gluten, ADDITIONAL INFORMATION High in fibre

Additives: E1200 Polydextrose , E162 Beetroot red , E170 Calcium carbonates , E170i Calcium carbonate , E322 Lecithins , E322i Lecithin , E422 Glycerol , E428 Gelatine , E476 Polyglycerol polyricinoleate , E500 Sodium carbonates , E500ii Sodium hydrogen carbonate

As written on the pack

Oligofructose, Rice Flour, Milk Chocolate (11%) [Sugar, Cocoa Butter, Cocoa Mass, Skimmed Milk Powder, Whey Powder (Milk), Lactose (Milk), Anhydrous Milk Fat, Emulsifiers (Soya Lecithin, Polyglycerol Polyricinoleate), Natural Vanilla Flavouring], Bulking Agent (Polydextrose), Oats (6%), Humectant (Glycerine), Marshmallows (6%) [Glucose-Fructose Syrup, Sugar, Water, Pork Gelatine, Maize Starch, Colour (Beetroot Red), Natural Flavouring], Palm Oil, Sugar, Glucose Syrup, Fat Reduced Cocoa Powder, Fortified Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Niacin, Iron, Thiamin), Honeycomb Pieces (1.5%) [Sugar, Glucose Syrup, Palm Oil, Raising Agent (Sodium Bicarbonate)], Natural Flavourings, Whey Powder (Milk), Freeze Dried Raspberries (0.4%), Emulsifier (Soya Lecithin), Skimmed Milk Powder, Malted Barley Flour, Rapeseed Oil, Salt. ALLERGEN INFORMATION For allergens, including cereals containing gluten, see ingredients in bold. May contain traces of peanuts, nuts and egg. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION High in fibre.

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.

  • E162 Beetroot red Colours are substances which add or restore colour in a food, and include natural constituents of foods and natural sources which are normally not consumed as foods as such and not normally used as characteristic ingredients of food.
  • E170 Calcium carbonates Calcium carbonate is chalk.
  • 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.
  • E428 Gelatine Gelatine is a gelling agent made from collagen in animal skin and bones.
  • E476 Polyglycerol polyricinoleate Polyglycerol polyricinoleate (PGPR) is an emulsifier made from castor oil.
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  • 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.
  • Lactose Lactose is milk sugar, crystallised industrially from whey, a by-product of cheese making.
  • 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.
  • Fructose Fructose is the sugar found naturally in fruit and honey, but as an ingredient it is refined industrially, mostly from corn starch.
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.

  • 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.
  • 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 426 protein bars

From least to most processed, this one ranks 406th. 93% of the protein 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 426 protein bars, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5056315500259, last edited 14 September 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.