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Is Skinny Protein Salted Caramel ultra-processed?

5 x 20 g Bars Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Skinny Protein 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:

  • 40 ingredients
  • 3 additives
  • Nutri-Score E

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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

Soya Protein Crispies 25% (Soya Protein Isolate, Tapioca Starch, Salt), Milk Chocolate Coating 20% (Sugar, Vegetable Fat (Palm Kernel, Palm, Shea), Fat Reduced Cocoa Powder, Whey Powder, Skimmed Milk Powder, Emulsifier (Lecithin), Natural Vanilla Flavouring), Glucose Syrup, Crisped Cereal (Rice Flour, Wheat Gluten, Malt (Wheat), Sugar, Dextrose, Salt, Emulsifier (Sunflower Lecithin)), Oligofructose, Sweetened Condensed Skimmed Milk (Skimmed Milk, Sugar), Humectant (Glycerine), Palm Oil, Fat Reduced Cocoa Powder, Salt, Natural Flavourings, Natural Vanilla Flavouring with Other Natural Flavourings, Emulsifier (Soya Lecithin)

Additives: E322 Lecithins , E322i Lecithin , E422 Glycerol

As written on the pack

Soya Protein Crispies (25%) [Soya Protein Isolate, Tapioca Starch, Salt], Milk Chocolate Flavoured Coating (20%) [Sugar, Vegetable Fat (Palm Kernel, Palm, Shea) in varying proportions, Fat Reduced Cocoa Powder, Whey Powder (Milk), Skimmed Milk Powder, Emulsifier (Lecithin), Natural Vanilla Flavouring], Glucose Syrup, Crisped Cereal [Rice Flour, Wheat Gluten, Malt (Wheat), Sugar, Dextrose, Salt, Emulsifier (Sunflower Lecithin)], Oligofructose, Sweetened Condensed Skimmed Milk (Skimmed Milk, Sugar), Humectant (Glycerine), Palm Oil, Fat Reduced Cocoa Powder, Salt, Natural Flavourings, Natural Vanilla Flavouring with Other Natural Flavourings, Emulsifier (Soya Lecithin).

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.
  • 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.
  • Humectant Humectants are substances which prevent foods from drying out by counteracting the effect of an atmosphere having a low degree of humidity, or promote the dissolution of a powder in an aqueous medium.

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.

  • Dextrose Dextrose is pure glucose crystallised from starch-derived syrup.
  • 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.
  • Gluten Wheat gluten, sold as "vital wheat gluten", is the protein washed out of wheat flour.
  • 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.

  • 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 1,328 bars

From least to most processed, this one ranks 1192nd. 89% of the 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 1,328 bars, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5056315501492, last edited 8 June 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 E (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.