Is The Best (Morrisons) All Butter Fruit & Oat Cookies ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- 32 ingredients
- 4 additives
- Nutri-Score E
Less processed biscuits
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10 ingredients · no additives
NOVA group
3
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9 ingredients · 2 additives
NOVA group
3
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Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
Wheat flour (wheat flour, calcium carbonate, iron, niacin, thiamin), Salted butter (processing marker) 18% (butter, salt (processing marker)), Raisins 18% (raisins, sunflower oil (processing marker)), Rolled oats 10%, Sugar (processing marker), Demerara sugar (processing marker), Invert sugar syrup (ultra-processing marker), Oatmeal, Apricot 4% (apricot, preservative (processing marker)), Desiccated coconut, Raising agents (diphosphates (ultra-processing marker), sodium carbonates, ammonium carbonates), Molasses (processing marker), Salt (processing marker), 7P* ! ALLERGY ADVICE For allergens, including cereals containing gluten, Nutrition Typical values per 100g per cookie (approx), 1701 1110kos %RI 6% your RI* 8400kJ
Additives: E220 Sulphur dioxide , E450 Diphosphates , E500 Sodium carbonates , E503 Ammonium carbonates
As written on the pack
Wheat flour (wheat flour, calcium carbonate, iron, niacin, thiamin), Salted butter (18%) (butter (milk), salt), Raisins (18%) (raisins, sunflower oil), Rolled oats (10%), Sugar, Demerara sugar, Invert sugar syrup, Oatmeal, Apricot (4%) (apricot, preservative (sulphur dioxide)), Desiccated coconut, Raising agents (diphosphates, sodium carbonates, ammonium carbonates), Molasses, Salt. 7P* ! ALLERGY ADVICE For allergens, including cereals containing gluten, see ingredients in bold. May also contain egg, nuts and soya. Nutrition Typical values per 100g per cookie (approx. 25g) 1701 1110kos %RI 6% your RI* 8400kJ/
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.
- E450 Diphosphates Diphosphates are phosphate salts used as raising agents in baking powder, and to hold water in processed meats and cheese.
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.
6 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.
- Butter Butter, the fat churned from cream.
- Preservative Preservatives slow spoilage by microbes.
- 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.
Among 1,514 biscuits
From least to most processed, this one ranks 565th. 83% of the biscuits here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5010251830139, last edited 6 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.