Is Tate and Lyle Barista Collection Caramel ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- 10 ingredients
- 3 additives
- Nutri-Score E
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Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
Sugar solution 56%, Water, Invert sugar syrup (ultra-processing marker) 15%, Natural flavourings (ultra-processing marker), Colour (ultra-processing marker) (Plain caramel (ultra-processing marker)), Preservative (processing marker) (Potassium sorbate (processing marker)), Acidity regulator (Citric acid)
Additives: E150a Plain caramel , E202 Potassium sorbate , E330 Citric acid
As written on the pack
Sugar solution 56%, Water, Invert sugar syrup 15%, Natural flavourings, Colour (Plain caramel), Preservative (Potassium sorbate), Acidity regulator (Citric acid)
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.
- E150a Plain caramel Plain caramel is a brown colour made by heating sugars.
- Colour Colours are added to restore colour lost in processing or to make a product look more appealing.
- 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.
- Invert sugar Invert sugar is ordinary sugar split into glucose and fructose with acid or enzymes.
3 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.
- E202 Potassium sorbate Preservatives are substances which prolong the shelf-life of foods by protecting them against deterioration caused by micro-organisms and/or which protect against growth of pathogenic micro-organisms.
- Preservative Preservatives slow spoilage by microbes.
- Sweet snacks Products in the category "Sweet snacks" are at least group 3.
Among 1,732 confectioneries
From least to most processed, this one ranks 750th. 90% of the confectioneries here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5010115901142, 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.