Is Véritable Délice Spéculoos ultra-processed?

500 grammes Dry biscuits Sold in Canada and France

Pack of Véritable Délice Spéculoos

It's processed, but not ultra-processed

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

Whole foods combined with:

  • 10 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score E

Less processed sweet snacks

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, sugar (processing marker), vegetable oils (processing marker) (palm vegetable oils, rapeseed vegetable oils), candi syrup, up-and-coming powder (sodium carbonates), salt (processing marker), cinnamon

As written on the pack

wheat flour, sugar, vegetable oils (palm, rapeseed), candi syrup, up-and-coming powder (sodium carbonates), salt, cinnamon,

What makes it processed

Culinary ingredients

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.

Category rules

Open Food Facts puts every product in this category in at least this group.

  • Sweet snacks Products in the category "Sweet snacks" are at least group 3.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 68 dry biscuits

From least to most processed, this one ranks 4th. 84% of the dry 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 68 dry biscuits, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 27035009, last edited 9 August 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.