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Is Tesco Multigrain Crackers ultra-processed?

Wheat crackers Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Tesco Multigrain Crackers

Yes, it's ultra-processed

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

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

  • 26 ingredients
  • 6 additives
  • Nutri-Score D

Less processed wheat crackers

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, Niacin, Thiamin), Rapeseed Oil, Wheat Flour, Five Grain Blend (Cracked Wheat, Brown Rice Flour, Rye, Brown Linseed, Millet), Glucose Syrup, Sea Salt, Raising Agents (Ammonium Carbonate, Sodium Bicarbonate), Barley Malt Extract, Sugar, Onion, Antioxidant (Tocopherol-Rich Extract), Preservative (Sodium Metabisulphite)

Additives: E223 Sodium metabisulphite , E306 Tocopherol-rich extract , E500 Sodium carbonates , E500ii Sodium hydrogen carbonate , E503 Ammonium carbonates , E503i Ammonium carbonate

As written on the pack

Wheat Flour [Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin], Rapeseed Oil, Wholemeal Wheat Flour, Five Grain Blend [Cracked Wheat, Brown Rice Flour, Rye, Brown Linseed, Millet], Glucose Syrup, Sea Salt, Raising Agents (Ammonium Carbonate, Sodium Bicarbonate), Barley Malt Extract, Sugar, Onion Powder, Antioxidant (Tocopherol-Rich Extract), Preservative (Sodium Metabisulphite)

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.

  • Glucose Glucose, usually listed as glucose syrup, is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
  • Glucose syrup Glucose syrup is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
5 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.

  • Salty snacks Products in the category "Salty snacks" are at least group 3.
  • Preservative Preservatives slow spoilage by microbes.
  • 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 37 wheat crackers

From least to most processed, this one ranks 32nd. 70% of the wheat crackers 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 37 wheat crackers, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5059697266034, 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 D (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.