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Is Tesco Crumble Topping ultra-processed?

Pastries Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Tesco Crumble Topping

It's processed, but not ultra-processed

  1. 1 Unprocessed
  2. 2 Kitchen staple
  3. 3 Processed
  4. 4 Ultra-processed

Whole foods combined with:

  • 19 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score E

Less processed sweet snacks

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 (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, N min), Sugar, Palm Oil, Breadcrumbs (Wheat Flour Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Wate Demerara Sugar, Rapeseed Oil, gy Advice lergens, including cereals containing gluten, gredients in bold, STORAGE tore in a cool, dry place and once baked in an airtig ontainer

As written on the pack

Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, N min), Sugar, Palm Oil, Breadcrumbs (Wheat Flour Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Wate Demerara Sugar, Rapeseed Oil. gy Advice lergens, including cereals containing gluten, gredients in bold. Suitable for vegetarians STORAGE tore in a cool, dry place and once baked in an airtig ontainer.

What makes it processed

Culinary ingredients

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.

Category rules

Open Food Facts puts every product in this category in at least this group.

  • Sweet snacks Products in the category "Sweet snacks" are at least group 3.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 205 pastries

From least to most processed, this one ranks 17th. 87% of the pastries 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 205 pastries, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5054269711912, 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.