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Is Abba Caviar ultra-processed?

80 g Fish and meat and eggs Sold in Sweden

Pack of Abba Caviar

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:

  • 18 ingredients
  • 9 additives
  • Nutri-Score E

Less processed fish and meat and eggs

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

Saltad STENBITSROM 88%, vatten, förtjockningsmedel (e415), ättika, konserveringsmedel (e211, e202), syra (e330), lökextrakt, sulfit, färgämne (e120, e153, e150d, e163, e133)

Additives: E120 Cochineal , E133 Brilliant blue FCF , E150d Sulphite ammonia caramel , E153 Vegetable carbon , E163 Anthocyanins , E202 Potassium sorbate , E211 Sodium benzoate , E330 Citric acid , E415 Xanthan gum

As written on the pack

Saltad STENBITSROM (88%), vatten, förtjockningsmedel (E415), ättika, konserveringsmedel (E211, E202), syra (E330), lökextrakt, SULFIT, färgämne (E120, E153, E150d, E163, E133).

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.

  • E120 Cochineal Carmine is a red colour made from cochineal insects.
  • E133 Brilliant blue FCF Brilliant blue FCF is a synthetic blue dye, listed in the US as FD&C Blue No. 1.
  • E150d Sulphite ammonia caramel Sulphite ammonia caramel is the dark brown colour in colas and many sauces, made by heating sugars with sulphite and ammonia compounds.
  • E153 Vegetable carbon A food additive authorised for industrial food production.
  • E163 Anthocyanins Colours are substances which add or restore colour in a food, and include natural constituents of foods and natural sources which are normally not consumed as foods as such and not normally used as characteristic ingredients of food.
  • E415 Xanthan gum Xanthan gum is a thickener made by fermenting sugar with the bacterium Xanthomonas campestris.
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  • Colour Colours are added to restore colour lost in processing or to make a product look more appealing.
  • Thickener Thickeners, often gums or modified starches, make liquids more viscous so that a product feels richer than its ingredients alone would make it.
2 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.
  • Preservative Preservatives slow spoilage by microbes.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 36 fish and meat and eggs

From least to most processed, this one ranks 36th. 39% of the fish and meat and eggs 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 36 fish and meat and eggs, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 7311171007891, last edited 2 April 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.