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Is Arla Mild Kvarg - Blåbär ultra-processed?

1000 g Lean quark Sold in Sweden and Germany

Pack of Arla Mild Kvarg - Blåbär

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:

  • 15 ingredients
  • 1 additive
  • Nutri-Score A

Less processed lean quark

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, blåbär 3.8%, cikoriarotfiber (inulin), majsstärkelse, förtjockningsmedel (citruspektin), naturlig arom, sötningsmedel (aspartam), mjölksyrakultur, laktasenzym, surhetsreglerande medel (natriumcitrat)

Additives: E951 Aspartame

As written on the pack

Mjölk, vatten, blåbär 3,8%, cikoriarotfiber (inulin), majsstärkelse, förtjockningsmedel (citruspektin), naturlig arom, sötningsmedel (aspartam), mjölksyrakultur, laktasenzym, surhetsreglerande medel (natriumcitrat).

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.

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.

  • Vegetable fiber Isolated plant fibres, such as inulin, oat fibre or bamboo fibre, are extracted industrially and added to change texture or support "source of fibre" claims.
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 13 lean quark

From least to most processed, this one ranks 11th. 54% of the lean quark 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 13 lean quark, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 4016241050540, last edited 7 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.