Big Mix
Processing
4
Ultra-processed
Group 4 of 4 on the NOVA scale
Additives listed
5
0 we grade moderate or higher
4 of them not yet assessed here
Sugars per 100g
55.90g
High
UK FSA front of pack threshold
Three separate readings, kept apart on purpose. This is not a score, and none of it says this product is harmful.
Additives (5)
This label lists 3 colours and 2 raising agents.
E160A
Carotenes
Yellow to orange colour
What it is. The orange pigments found in carrots and other vegetables, either extracted or made synthetically.
Why it is used. Colours margarine, soft drinks, dairy, and sweets.
What the evidence says. The same compound the body turns into vitamin A, and safe at the levels used in food. High dose beta-carotene supplements have been linked to harm in smokers, but those doses are far above anything a colour in food delivers, and conflating the two is a common mistake.
Permitted. The supplement findings apply to concentrated doses, not to food colouring.
Assessed against EFSA, JECFA. Full entry for E160A
Also on the label, not assessed here yet
- E150A Plain caramel colour
- E163 Anthocyanins colour
- E500 Sodium carbonates raising agent
- E503 Ammonium carbonates raising agent
Names and jobs come from the register of additives permitted in Great Britain, which we have not finished transcribing: a code shown without a name is a gap in our coverage, not a finding that it is unapproved. Naming one is not grading it either. Full detail appears only where we have an assessment against a named authority, so all of this describes our coverage rather than these additives. Most are common and low concern.
Ingredients
sugar clucose syrup cocoa mass cocoa butter vegetable ol palm coconut, shea) skimmed miltk dried shole mik invert sugar syrup butter oil (milk) apple purée double cream mik) butter er 600g nut weh pa 6 pau 16 milk) dried whey mi) lactose (mi) fat 474 reduced cocoa powder haselnuts umectant: clycerol salt emulsfer seya lecthin sunflower lecithin clucose-fructose syrup wheatflour 20.1g 11.7g contains cluten (with wheat tflour, calcium carbonate, iron, niacin thiamin) favourings acid citric acid· colour carotenes, plain caramel, anthocyanins (from 6069 tapioca starch celling agent pectin 69.0g purple carrots) partially inverted sugar syrup s. raising agent sodium bicarbonate, e503 clazing burze 1.3g agent cum arabic mk chocolate contains cocoa solids 30% minimum, mik solds 20% minimum. dark chocolate contains cocoa soids 70% minimum. 0.25g unu for allergens see ingredients in bold not suitable for nut, peanut and egg allergy sufferers ne jo ns a6e 66g pue suitable for vegetarians m sunlight. not suitable for children under 36 months due to potential choking hazard jezey buyou 650ge @sok racyde wop6 apl oction
As printed on the pack, in the producer's own order: ingredients are listed by weight, so what comes first is most of what is in it. E numbers link to their assessment where we have one.