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Is Aito Protein strawberry white choco oat drink ultra-processed?

Oat-based drinks Sold in Finland

Pack of Aito Protein strawberry white choco oat drink

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:

  • 21 ingredients
  • 4 additives
  • Nutri-Score C

Less processed oat-based drinks

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

Havrebas (vatten, havre 10%), ärtprotein, bondbönsprotein, jordgubbsjuice 1%, aromer, salt, stabiliseringsmedel (gellangummi), surhetsreglerandemedel (natriumcitrat), färgämne (karotener), sötningsmedel (acesulfam K, sukralos), vitaminer (riboflavin, D3, B12)

Additives: E160a Carotene , E418 Gellan gum , E950 Acesulfame k , E955 Sucralose

As written on the pack

Havrebas (vatten, havre 10 %), ärtprotein, bondbönsprotein, jordgubbsjuice (1 %), aromer, salt, stabiliseringsmedel (gellangummi), surhetsreglerandemedel (natriumcitrat), färgämne (karotener), sötningsmedel (acesulfam K, sukralos), vitaminer (riboflavin, D3, B12).

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.

  • E160a Carotene Carotenes are orange-yellow pigments, either synthesised or extracted from carrots, algae or palm oil.
  • E418 Gellan gum Stabilisers are substances which make it possible to maintain the physico-chemical state of a foodstuff; stabilisers include substances which enable the maintenance of a homogenous dispersion of two or more immiscible substances in a foodstuff, substances which stabilise, retain or intensify an existing colour of a foodstuff and substances which increase the binding capacity of the food, including the formation of cross-links between proteins enabling the binding of food pieces into re-constituted food.
  • E950 Acesulfame k Acesulfame K is a synthetic sweetener about 200 times sweeter than sugar, often combined with aspartame or sucralose.
  • E955 Sucralose Sucralose is a sweetener made by chlorinating sugar.
  • 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.
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  • Sweetener Sweeteners give sweetness with few or no calories, many at hundreds of times the strength of sugar.
1 ingredient that would only make it processed

Kitchen staples like sugar, salt and oil. On their own they make a food processed, not ultra-processed.

  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 188 oat-based drinks

From least to most processed, this one ranks 188th. 62% of the oat-based drinks 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 188 oat-based drinks, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 6410222015005, last edited 15 May 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.