Is Tesco Assorted Jam Tarts 6 Pack ultra-processed?

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Yes, it's ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

Colour
Gelling agent
Glucose
Fructose
E163 Anthocyanins

26 ingredients
2 additives
Nutri-Score E

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

wheat flour, strawberry jam 0%) apricot jam (163), blackcurrant jam 16%, palm o sugar whey powder strawberry jam contains (glucose fructose syrup (ultra-processing marker)), sugar (processing marker), water, strawberry purée, concentrated strawberry juin acidity regulators, citric acid, sodium cg agent, pectinil, colours (ultra-processing marker), anthocyanins (ultra-processing marker), annattol flavouring prative potassium glucose-fructose syrup, sugar apricot purde, water acidity regulators citric acid, sodium sorbatel apret jam co ag pet fouring preservative, potassium sorbatel, colour curcumini bacur apice colours anthocyanina curcumini c singer angulators caric acid, trisodium citratel, gelling agent (ultra-processing marker), pectini, preservative potassium c jam contain (pure which c xis made with fruit jams ok conta 3236 lig in 4.4 2.28 reference intake of an averago artu)

Additives: E163 Anthocyanins , E330 Citric acid

As written on the pack

wheat flour, strawberry jam 0%) apricot jam (163), blackcurrant jam (16%), palm o sugar whey powder strawberry jam contains: glucose fructose syrup, sugar, water, strawberry purée, concentrated strawberry juin acidity regulators (citric acid, sodium cg agent (pectinil, colours (anthocyanins, annattol flavouring prative potassium glucose-fructose syrup, sugar apricot purde, water acidity regulators citric acid, sodium sorbatel apret jam co ag pet fouring preservative (potassium sorbatel, colour curcumini bacur apice colours anthocyanina curcumini c singer angulators caric acid, trisodium citratel, gelling agent (pectini, preservative potassium c jam contain: pure which c xis made with fruit jams ok conta 3236 lig in 4.4 2.28 reference intake of an averago artu/

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.

E163 Anthocyanins Colours are substances which add or restore colour in a food, and include natural constituents of foods and natural sources which are normally not consumed as foods as such and not normally used as characteristic ingredients of food.
Colour Colours are added to restore colour lost in processing or to make a product look more appealing.
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.
Fructose Fructose is the sugar found naturally in fruit and honey, but as an ingredient it is refined industrially, mostly from corn starch.

1 ingredient 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.

How the NOVA groups work

About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5000119292247, 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.