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Is Skinny Whip Orange ultra-processed?

5 x 20 g Nougats Sold in the United Kingdom, Ireland and Italy

Pack of Skinny Whip Orange

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:

  • 30 ingredients
  • 4 additives
  • Nutri-Score D

Less processed confectioneries

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

Glucose Syrup, Milk Chocolate Coating 28% (Sugar, Vegetable Fat (Palm Kernel, Palm, Shea), in varying proportions Fat Reduced Cocoa Powder, Whey Powder, Skimmed Milk Powder, Lecithin, Natural Vanilla Flavouring), Polydextrose, Water, Orange Flavour Sugar Nibs 3% (Sugar, Vegetable Fat (Shea Oil, Palm Oil), Sunflower Lecithin, Concentrates, Paprika, Carrot, Natural Flavouring), Egg Albumen, Concentrates (Carrot, Apple), Orange Extract, Cellulose

Additives: E1200 Polydextrose , E322 Lecithins , E322i Lecithin , E460 Cellulose

As written on the pack

Glucose Syrup, Milk Chocolate Flavoured Coating (28%) [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], Bulking Agent (Polydextrose), Water, Orange Flavour Sugar Nibs (3%) [Sugar, Vegetable Fat (Shea Oil, Palm Oil), Emulsifier (Sunflower Lecithin), Colouring Food Concentrates (Paprika, Carrot), Natural Flavouring], Egg Albumen, Colouring Food Concentrates (Carrot and Apple), Orange Extract, Stabiliser (Cellulose).

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.
  • E460 Cellulose A food additive used to dissolve, dilute, disperse or otherwise physically modify a food additive or nutrient without altering its function -and without exerting any technological effect itself- in order to facilitate its handling, application or use of the food additive or nutrient.
  • 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.
5 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.

  • 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.
  • Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.
  • 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 12 nougats

From least to most processed, this one ranks 7th. 100% of the nougats 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 12 nougats, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5056315501041, last edited 7 August 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 D (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.