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Is Trek Millionaire Shortbread ultra-processed?

55 g Biscuits Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Trek Millionaire Shortbread

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:

  • 31 ingredients
  • 3 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

Soya protein isolate 26%, Chocolate alternative (dates, cocoa butter, cocoa mass, tigernuts, rice flour, emulsifier (sunflower lecithin), natural flavouring), Carame (glucose syrup, cane sugar, water, coconut oil, stabiliser (glycerol), coconut milk, apple fibres, salt, emulsifier (sunflower lecithin)), Chicory fibre, Peanut butter, Dates, Cashews, Date, Concentrated grape juice, Rice starch, Natural flavouring, Sea salt

Additives: E322 Lecithins , E322i Lecithin , E422 Glycerol

As written on the pack

Soya protein isolate (26%), Chocolate alternative (dates, cocoa butter, cocoa mass, tigernuts, rice flour, emulsifier: sunflower lecithin, natural flavouring) (18%), Carame) (glucose syrup, cane sugar, water, coconut oil, stabiliser: glycerol, coconut milk powder, apple fibres, salt, emulsifier: sunflower lecithin) (13%), Chicory fibre, Peanut butter, Dates, Cashews, Date syrup, Concentrated grape juice, Rice starch, Natural flavouring, Sea salt.

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.

  • E322 Lecithins Lecithins are fatty substances extracted mostly from soybeans, sunflower seeds or eggs, used as emulsifiers to keep fat and water mixed, for example in chocolate.
  • E422 Glycerol Glycerol is a sweet-tasting liquid used to keep products moist and soft.
  • Emulsifier Emulsifiers keep fat and water from separating, giving products a smooth, stable texture over a long shelf life.
  • 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.

  • 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.
  • Vegetable fiber Isolated plant fibres, such as inulin, oat fibre or bamboo fibre, are extracted industrially and added to change texture or support "source of fibre" claims.
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.

  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.
  • 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 1231st. 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 5060088709412, last edited 30 May 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.
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.