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Is The Skinny Cookie Co Ginger Crunch Cookies ultra-processed?

Biscuits Sold in the United Kingdom

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:

  • 25 ingredients
  • 6 additives

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 (Wheat flour, Calcium carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Rapeseed oil, Crystallised ginger 11% (Ginger, Sugar), Chicory root, Dried apricots 9% (Apricot, Rice flour, Preservative), Oatbran, Fructose, Sugar, Vegetable glycerine, Ground ginger, Raising agents (Ammonium bicarbonates, Sodium bicarbonates), skimmed milk, Flavourings

Additives: E220 Sulphur dioxide , E422 Glycerol , E500 Sodium carbonates , E500ii Sodium hydrogen carbonate , E503 Ammonium carbonates , E503ii Ammonium hydrogen carbonate

As written on the pack

Wheat flour (Wheat flour, Calcium carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Rapeseed oil, Crystallised ginger (11%) (Ginger, Sugar), Chicory root extract, Dried apricots (9%) (Apricot, Rice flour, Preservative (Sulphur dioxide)), Oatbran, Fructose, Sugar, Vegetable glycerine, Ground ginger, Raising agents (Ammonium bicarbonates, Sodium bicarbonates), Dried skimmed milk, Flavourings

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.

  • E422 Glycerol Glycerol is a sweet-tasting liquid used to keep products moist and soft.
  • 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.

  • Fructose Fructose is the sugar found naturally in fruit and honey, but as an ingredient it is refined industrially, mostly from corn starch.
3 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.

  • Preservative Preservatives slow spoilage by microbes.
  • 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 1,514 biscuits

From least to most processed, this one ranks 746th. 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 0072417200403, last edited 26 June 2026), available under the Open Database License. If something is wrong or the recipe has changed, you can correct it there.
  • The NOVA group is an automated estimate from crowdsourced data: a missing or mistyped ingredient can change it.
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.