Milk powder

Milk powder is not a marker of ultra-processing. It is one of the markers Open Food Facts uses to classify a food as processed (NOVA group 3).

What it is and why it counts

Milk powder is milk with the water evaporated off: a preserved form of a whole food rather than an industrial extract.

Processed ingredients

These are processed foods in their own right (group 3), preserved versions of whole foods, so a product containing them is at least processed.

Where it turns up

Milk powder appears in 2,286 of the 40,000 products on this site (6%).

Products containing milk powder

Showing the 60 most popular of 2,286.

How the NOVA classification works