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Is Activia Gut Health Yoghurt With Walnut & Oats ultra-processed?

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Pack of Activia Gut Health Yoghurt With Walnut & Oats

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
  • 2 additives
  • Nutri-Score C

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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

Yogurt, Water, Sugar, Dietary Fibre (Oligofructose), Oat 1.5%, Concentrated Lemon Juice, Walnut 1%, Natural Flavourings, Modified Tapioca Starch, Thickener (Pectin), Colour (Caramel), Milk Minerals Concentrate, Cultures (Lactobacillus Bulgaricus, Streptococcus Thermophilus, Lactococcus Lactis, Bifidobacterium Lactis (Bifidus ActiRegularis)), including cereals containing gluten, see ingredients underlined, May contain other types of nuts

Additives: E150 Caramel , E440 Pectins

As written on the pack

Yogurt (Milk), Water, Sugar, Dietary Fibre (Oligofructose) (2.9%), Oat (1.5%), Concentrated Lemon Juice, Walnut (1%), Natural Flavourings, Modified Tapioca Starch, Thickener (Pectin), Colour (Caramel), Milk Minerals Concentrate, Cultures (Lactobacillus Bulgaricus, Streptococcus Thermophilus, Lactococcus Lactis, Bifidobacterium Lactis (Bifidus ActiRegularis)). For allergens, including cereals containing gluten, see ingredients underlined. May contain other types of nuts.

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.

  • E150 Caramel A food additive authorised for industrial food production.
  • E440 Pectins Pectins are gelling agents extracted from citrus peel or apple pomace.
  • Colour Colours are added to restore colour lost in processing or to make a product look more appealing.
  • Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.
  • Thickener Thickeners, often gums or modified starches, make liquids more viscous so that a product feels richer than its ingredients alone would make it.
  • Modified starch Modified starch is starch altered physically, with enzymes or chemically, so that it thickens, gels or survives freezing and heating better than ordinary starch.
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.

  • Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 1,209 yogurts

From least to most processed, this one ranks 1080th. 71% of the yogurts 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 1,209 yogurts, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5060360507309, last edited 27 February 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 C (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.