Yes — Chocolate Cake Bites is ultra-processed.
The product contains multiple ultra-processed ingredients and additives according to NOVA, including palm oil/fat (in cake margarine and palm fat), milk chocolate, emulsifier, mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids, soya lecithin, natural vanilla flavour, malt extract, and industrial cake margarine. These industrial formulations and additives classify the product as ultra-processed (UPF).
Other biscuits & cookies Nomi has checked — these ones aren't ultra-processed.
Fortnum & Mason Pistachio & Clotted Cream Biscuits
Fortnum & Mason
Not UPF
Shortbread
Belmont
Not UPF
all butter shortbread rounds
Deluxe Lidl
Not UPF
Scottish All Butter Shortbread Assortment
Marks & Spencer, มาส แอน สเปนเซอร์
Not UPF
Shortbread
Bold, Marks & Spencer
Not UPF
Tesco Scottish Shortbread Assortment Tin
Tesco
Not UPF
All butter shortbread fingers
Tesco
Not UPF
Mini biszkopty
Andante
Not UPF
Sicilian lemon shortbread rounds
Specially Selected
Not UPF
Yes — Chocolate Cake Bites is ultra-processed, so it counts as a UPF (ultra-processed food). The product contains multiple ultra-processed ingredients and additives according to NOVA, including palm oil/fat (in cake margarine and palm fat), milk chocolate, emulsifier, mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids, soya lecithin, natural vanilla flavour, malt extract, and industrial cake margarine. These industrial formulations and additives classify the product as ultra-processed (UPF).
Nomi flags 10 ingredients in Chocolate Cake Bites as ultra-processed markers: cake margarine (vegetable, palm and rapeseed oil in varying proportions) water, icing sugar (maize starch), natural vanilla flavour, milk chocolate, emulsifier, soya lecithin, malted milk, malt extract, mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids, palm fat. See the full ingredient breakdown above for what each one is.
Ultra-processed foods (UPFs) are industrial formulations made with ingredients and additives you wouldn't find in a home kitchen — such as emulsifiers, artificial flavourings, colourings and modified starches. The classification is based on the NOVA system used by researchers and dietitians worldwide.
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Product information comes from public databases and Nomi's own analysis, and may contain errors. Always check the packaging. Ultra-processed classification is based on the NOVA food processing system.