Is Tesco Peanut Cookies ultra-processed?

Biscuits Sold in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands

Yes, it's ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

Dextrose
Flavouring
Glucose
Invert sugar
Milk proteins

16 ingredients
3 additives
Nutri-Score E

Less processed biscuits

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, Peanut 29%, Sugar (processing marker), Palm Oil, Rapeseed Oil, Coconut Oil (processing marker), Egg, Salt (processing marker), Raising Agents (Sodium Bicarbonate, Glucono-Delta-Lactone), Milk Proteins (ultra-processing marker), Invert Sugar Syrup (ultra-processing marker), Flavouring (ultra-processing marker), Dextrose (ultra-processing marker), Sunflower Oil (processing marker)

Additives: E500 Sodium carbonates , E500ii Sodium hydrogen carbonate , E575 Glucono-delta-lactone

As written on the pack

Wheat Flour, Peanut (29%), Sugar, Palm Oil, Rapeseed Oil, Coconut Oil, Pasteurised Egg, Salt, Raising Agents (Sodium Bicarbonate, Glucono-Delta-Lactone), Milk Proteins, Invert Sugar Syrup, Flavouring, Dextrose, Sunflower Oil.

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.

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.

Dextrose Dextrose is pure glucose crystallised from starch-derived syrup.
Glucose Glucose, usually listed as glucose syrup, is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
Invert sugar Invert sugar is ordinary sugar split into glucose and fructose with acid or enzymes.
Milk proteins Milk proteins are proteins separated from milk, such as caseinates and whey protein concentrates, added to adjust texture or raise protein content.

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.

Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.
Sweet snacks Products in the category "Sweet snacks" are at least group 3.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 1,514 biscuits

From least to most processed, this one ranks 946th. 83% of the biscuits 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 1,514 biscuits, least processed first

About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5057545985007, 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.