Is Tate's Bake Shop Oatmeal Raisin Cookies ultra-processed?

7 oz Drop cookies Sold in the United States

Yes, it's ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

Flavouring

19 ingredients
2 additives
Nutri-Score E

Less processed drop cookies

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

Butter (processing marker), flour (wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, ribflavin, folic acid, malted barley flour), Oats, Brown cane sugar (processing marker), Cane sugar (processing marker), Raisins, Eggs, Milk, Salt (processing marker), Baking Soda, Natural vanilla flavor (ultra-processing marker), Cinnamon

Additives: E500 Sodium carbonates , E500ii Sodium hydrogen carbonate

As written on the pack

Butter, Unbleached flour (wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, ribflavin, folic acid, malted barley flour), Oats, Brown cane sugar, Cane sugar, Raisins, Eggs, Milk, Salt, Baking Soda, Natural vanilla flavor, Cinnamon

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.

Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.

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.

Butter Butter, the fat churned from cream.
Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
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 64 drop cookies

From least to most processed, this one ranks 8th. 94% of the drop cookies 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 64 drop cookies, least processed first

About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0810291001026, last edited 26 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.