Is Tesco Malt Wheats Toasty Crunch ultra-processed?

750 g Breakfast cereals rich in fibre Sold in the United Kingdom, Ireland and France

Yes, it's ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

Invert sugar

14 ingredients
No additives
Nutri-Score A

Less processed breakfast cereals rich in fibre

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

Wholewheat Flour, Sugar (processing marker), Malted Barley Extract, Partially Inverted Sugar Syrup (ultra-processing marker), Salt (processing marker), Niacin, Iron, Pantothenic Acid, Thiamin, Riboflavin, vitamins, vitamin B6, Folic Acid, Vitamin B12

As written on the pack

Wholewheat Flour, Sugar, Malted Barley Extract, Partially Inverted Sugar Syrup, Salt, Niacin, Iron, Pantothenic Acid, Thiamin, Riboflavin, Vitamin B6, Folic Acid, Vitamin B12.

What makes it ultra-processed

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.

2 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.
Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 52 breakfast cereals rich in fibre

From least to most processed, this one ranks 23rd. 69% of the breakfast cereals rich in fibre 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 52 breakfast cereals rich in fibre, least processed first

About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5000436857112, last edited 4 September 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 A (from A, best, to E).
General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.