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Is Axfood Krämig Rotfruktsgratäng ultra-processed?

800g Potato salads Sold in Sweden

Pack of Axfood Krämig Rotfruktsgratäng

It's processed, but not ultra-processed

  1. 1 Unprocessed
  2. 2 Kitchen staple
  3. 3 Processed
  4. 4 Ultra-processed

Whole foods combined with:

  • 19 ingredients
  • 1 additive
  • Nutri-Score C

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Potatis 41%, grädde, morot 13%, vatten, palsternacka 8%, kålrot 6%, riven Herrgårdsost® (mjölk, salt, mjölksyrakultur, löpe, konserveringsmedel (e202)), purjolök, potatisstärkelse, salt, vitlöks, timjan, vitpeppar

Additives: E202 Potassium sorbate

As written on the pack

Potatis 41%, grädde, morot 13%, vatten, palsternacka 8%, kålrot 6%, riven Herrgårdsost® (mjölk, salt, mjölksyrakultur, löpe, konserveringsmedel (E202)), purjolök, potatisstärkelse, salt, vitlökspulver, timjan, vitpeppar

What makes it processed

Culinary ingredients

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

Preservation and traditional processing

Keep food safe or ferment it, like preservatives and cultures. A sign of processing, not ultra-processing.

  • 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.

Category rules

Open Food Facts puts every product in this category in at least this group.

  • Meals Products in the category "Meals" are at least group 3.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 28 potato salads

From least to most processed, this one ranks 2nd. 89% of the potato salads 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 28 potato salads, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 7340083485763, 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 C (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.