Is Arla Grekisk Yoghurt Vanilj ultra-processed?

Yogurts Sold in Sweden

Yes, it's ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

Flavouring
Sweetener
Thickener
E951 Aspartame

12 ingredients
2 additives
Nutri-Score A

Less processed yogurts

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

Mjölk, vatten, majsstärkelse (processing marker), vaniljextrakt, naturlig vaniljarom (ultra-processing marker), mald vaniljstång, sötningsmedel (ultra-processing marker) (aspartam (ultra-processing marker)), förtjockningsmedel (ultra-processing marker) (pektin), citronjuicekoncentrat, yoghurtkultur

Additives: E440a Pectin , E951 Aspartame

As written on the pack

Mjölk, vatten, majsstärkelse, vaniljextrakt, naturlig vaniljarom, mald vaniljstång, sötningsmedel (aspartam**), förtjockningsmedel (pektin), citronjuicekoncentrat, yoghurtkultur.

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.

E951 Aspartame Aspartame is a synthetic sweetener about 200 times sweeter than sugar, used in diet drinks and sugar-free products.
Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.
Sweetener Sweeteners give sweetness with few or no calories, many at hundreds of times the strength of sugar.
Thickener Thickeners, often gums or modified starches, make liquids more viscous so that a product feels richer than its ingredients alone would make it.

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.

Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 1,210 yogurts

From least to most processed, this one ranks 866th. 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 1,210 yogurts, least processed first

About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 4016241050717, last edited 18 July 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 A (from A, best, to E).
General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.