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Is Sondey Firone ultra-processed?

550 g Dry biscuits Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Sondey Firone

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:

  • 35 ingredients
  • 5 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

wheat flour, sugar, palm oil, cocoa mass, glucose-fructose syrup, cocoa butter, fat reduced cocoa powder, salt, whey powder, raising agents (ammonium carbonates), diphosphates, sodium carbonates, glucose syrup, natural flavouring, natural butter avouring, natural vanilla flavouring, orange oil, emulsifier (cithins), acid (citric acid), lemon peel, concentrated current juice, milk protein, skimmed millk powder, gelling agent (pectins), sour cherry juice, concentrated elderberry juice, lactose, wheat starch, acidity regulator (sodium carbonates), barn egg

Additives: E330 Citric acid , E440 Pectins , E450 Diphosphates , E500 Sodium carbonates , E503 Ammonium carbonates

As written on the pack

wheat flour, sugar, palm oil, cocoa mass, glucose - fructose syrup, cocoa butter, fat reduced cocoa powder, salt, whey powder (milk), raising agents: ammonium carbonates, diphosphates, sodium carbonates, glucose syrup, natural flavouring, natural butter avouring (milk), natural vanilla flavouring, orange oil, emulsifier: cithins (soya), acid: citric acid, lemon peel, concentrated current juice, milk protein, skimmed millk powder, gelling agent: pectins, concentrated sour cherry juice, concentrated elderberry juice, lactose (milk), wheat starch, acidity regulator: sodium carbonates, barn egg powder,

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.

  • E440 Pectins Pectins are gelling agents extracted from citrus peel or apple pomace.
  • E450 Diphosphates Diphosphates are phosphate salts used as raising agents in baking powder, and to hold water in processed meats and cheese.
  • 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.
  • Gelling agent Gelling agents such as pectin, gelatine or carrageenan set liquids into gels and stabilise textures.

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.
  • Milk proteins Milk proteins are proteins separated from milk, such as caseinates and whey protein concentrates, added to adjust texture or raise protein content.
  • 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.
4 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.
  • Sweet snacks Products in the category "Sweet snacks" are at least group 3.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 68 dry biscuits

From least to most processed, this one ranks 61st. 84% of the dry biscuits 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 68 dry biscuits, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 20420925, last edited 27 March 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.