Is Walkers Assorted Biscuit Portion 100S ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- 24 ingredients
- 6 additives
- Nutri-Score E
Less processed biscuits
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Whole wheat cereal with added vitamins and iron. 12 Biscuits
Weetabix
10 ingredients · no additives
NOVA group
3
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Fruit & Seed Oatcakes
Nairn's
9 ingredients · 2 additives
NOVA group
3
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Shortbread Fingers
Walker’s
9 ingredients · no additives
NOVA group
3
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Cheese Oatcakes
Nairn's
5 ingredients · 2 additives
NOVA group
3
Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
TE CHUNK BISCUITS Ingredlents (Wheat flour, wheat flour), calcium carbonate, iron, niacin thiamin) Sugar, vegetable oils (processing marker) (rapeseed vegetable oils, palm vegetable oils), dark chocolate chunks 14%, sugar (processing marker), cocoa mass, cocoa butter, emulsifier (ultra-processing marker) (soya lecithin (ultra-processing marker)), natural vanilla flavouring fat-reduced cocoa powder, invert sugar syrup (ultra-processing marker), skimmed milk powder (processing marker), raising agents (sodium bicarbonate), disodium diphosphate (ultra-processing marker), salt (processing marker), natural flavouring (ultra-processing marker), including cereals containing gluten
Additives: E322 Lecithins , E322i Lecithin , E450 Diphosphates , E450i Disodium diphosphate , E500 Sodium carbonates , E500ii Sodium hydrogen carbonate
As written on the pack
TE CHUNK BISCUITS Ingredlents: Wheat flour (wheat flour, calcium carbonate, iron, niacin thiamin) Sugar, vegetable oils (rapeseed, palm), dark chocolate chunks (14%) (sugar, cocoa mass, cocoa butter, emulsifier: soya lecithin; natural vanilla flavouring fat-reduced cocoa powder, invert sugar syrup, skimmed milk powder, raising agents: sodium bicarbonate, disodium diphosphate; salt, natural flavouring. For allergens, including cereals containing gluten, see ingredients in bold. May also contain nuts.
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.
- E450 Diphosphates Diphosphates are phosphate salts used as raising agents in baking powder, and to hold water in processed meats and cheese.
- 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.
- Invert sugar Invert sugar is ordinary sugar split into glucose and fructose with acid or enzymes.
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.
- 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.
- Milk powder Milk powder is milk with the water evaporated off: a preserved form of a whole food rather than an industrial extract.
Among 1,514 biscuits
From least to most processed, this one ranks 1038th. 83% of the biscuits here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0039047050020, 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.