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Is Soreen Lift Bars (Apple & Mango) ultra-processed?

4 x 42 g Confectioneries Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Soreen Lift Bars (Apple & Mango)

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:

  • 39 ingredients
  • 5 additives
  • Nutri-Score D

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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

Fortified Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin (B3), Thiamin (B1)), Water, Malted Barley Flour, Sugar, Maize Starch, Apple Purée 5%, Apple 4% (Fructo-Glucose Syrup, Apple Purée, Glucose Syrup, Glycerine, Sugar, Wheat Fibre, Palm Fat, Pectin, Citric Acid, Flavouring, Ascorbic Acid), Mango Nuggets 3% (Sugar, Concentrated Mango Puree, Lemon Puree, Pectin, Natural Flavouring Concentrated Pumpkin, Apple Puree), Vegetable Fats (Rapeseed, Palm), Salt, Natural Flavouring, Calcium Propionate, Yeast

Additives: E282 Calcium propionate , E300 Ascorbic acid , E330 Citric acid , E422 Glycerol , E440 Pectins

As written on the pack

Fortified Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin (B3), Thiamin (B1)), Water, Malted Barley Flour, Sugar, Maize Starch, Apple Purée (5%), Sweetened Apple Flavoured Pieces (4%) (Fructo-Glucose Syrup, Concentrated Apple Purée, Glucose Syrup, Glycerine, Sugar, Wheat Fibre, Palm Fat, Gelling Agent: Pectin, Acidity Regulator: Citric Acid, Flavouring, Antioxidant: Ascorbic Acid), Mango Nuggets (3%) (Sugar, Concentrated Mango Puree, Concentrated Lemon Puree, Gelling Agent: Pectin, Natural Flavouring Concentrated Pumpkin and Apple Puree), Vegetable Fats (Rapeseed, Palm), Salt, Natural Flavouring, Preservative: Calcium Propionate, Yeast. ALLERGY ADVICE

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.

  • E422 Glycerol Glycerol is a sweet-tasting liquid used to keep products moist and soft.
  • E440 Pectins Pectins are gelling agents extracted from citrus peel or apple pomace.
  • 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.
  • Vegetable fiber Isolated plant fibres, such as inulin, oat fibre or bamboo fibre, are extracted industrially and added to change texture or support "source of fibre" claims.
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.

  • 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.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 1,732 confectioneries

From least to most processed, this one ranks 1082nd. 90% of the confectioneries 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 1,732 confectioneries, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5055959200228, last edited 24 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.