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Is 7 Days Croissant with strawberry filling ultra-processed?

60 g Croissants Sold in the United Kingdom and the Czech Republic

Pack of 7 Days Croissant with strawberry filling

Yes, it's ultra-processed

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

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

  • 24 ingredients
  • 6 additives
  • Nutri-Score E

Less processed croissants

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

Croissant (wheat flour), vegetable oils (palm oil, sunflower oil), sugar, glucose-fructose syrup, yeast, salt, mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids, vanillin, citric acid, calcium propionate, potassium sorbate, Strawberry filling 23% (glucose-fructose syrup), strawberries, sugar, pectin, citric acid, calcium citrate, natural flavouring, potassium sorbate, Strawberry filling contains 30% strawberries

Additives: E202 Potassium sorbate , E282 Calcium propionate , E330 Citric acid , E333 Calcium citrates , E440 Pectins , E471 Mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids

As written on the pack

Croissant: wheat flour, vegetable oils (palm oil, sunflower oil), sugar, glucose-fructose syrup, yeast, salt, stabiliser (mono - and diglycerides of fatty acids), vanillin, acidity regulator (citric acid), preservatives (calcium propionate, potassium sorbate). Strawberry filling 23%: glucose-fructose syrup, strawberries, sugar, gelling agent (pectin), acidity regulator (citric acid, calcium citrate), natural flavouring, preservative (potassium sorbate). Strawberry filling contains 30% strawberries.

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.

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.

  • Glucose Glucose, usually listed as glucose syrup, is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
  • Fructose Fructose is the sugar found naturally in fruit and honey, but as an ingredient it is refined industrially, mostly from corn starch.
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.

  • E202 Potassium sorbate Preservatives are substances which prolong the shelf-life of foods by protecting them against deterioration caused by micro-organisms and/or which protect against growth of pathogenic micro-organisms.
  • 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.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 44 croissants

From least to most processed, this one ranks 30th. 80% of the croissants 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 44 croissants, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5201360521418, 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.