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Is Brooklea Caramel Flavour Protein Pudding ultra-processed?

200g Puddings Sold in the United Kingdom and Ireland

Pack of Brooklea Caramel Flavour Protein Pudding

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:

  • 17 ingredients
  • 6 additives
  • Nutri-Score A

Less processed puddings

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

Skimmed 饾悓饾悽饾惀饾悿, 饾悓饾悽饾惀饾悿 Protein 9%, Whipping Cream (饾悓饾悽饾惀饾悿), Modified Maize Starch, Flavouring, Thickeners (Carrageenan), Sodium Carboxy Methyl Cellulose, Colours (Carotenes), 饾悞饾惍饾惀饾惄饾悺饾悽饾惌饾悶 Ammonia Caramel, Lactase, Salt, Sweeteners (Acesulfame K), Sucralose

Additives: E150c Ammonia caramel , E160a Carotene , E407 Carrageenan , E466 Sodium carboxy methyl cellulose , E950 Acesulfame k , E955 Sucralose

Also detected, but not matched to one ingredient: E150c Ammonia caramel.

As written on the pack

Skimmed 饾悓饾悽饾惀饾悿, 饾悓饾悽饾惀饾悿 Protein (9%), Whipping Cream (饾悓饾悽饾惀饾悿), Modified Maize Starch, Flavouring, Thickeners: Carrageenan, Sodium Carboxy Methyl Cellulose; Colours: Carotenes, 饾悞饾惍饾惀饾惄饾悺饾悽饾惌饾悶 Ammonia Caramel; Lactase, Salt, Sweeteners: Acesulfame K, Sucralose.

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.

  • E150c Ammonia caramel Ammonia caramel is a brown colour made by heating sugars with ammonia compounds.
  • E160a Carotene Carotenes are orange-yellow pigments, either synthesised or extracted from carrots, algae or palm oil.
  • E407 Carrageenan Carrageenan is a thickener and gelling agent extracted from red seaweed, used widely in dairy desserts, plant-based drinks and processed meats.
  • E466 Sodium carboxy methyl cellulose Carboxymethyl cellulose is a thickener made by chemically modifying cellulose from wood or cotton.
  • 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.
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  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.

  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 95 puddings

From least to most processed, this one ranks 89th. 92% of the puddings 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 95 puddings, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 4088600496672, last edited 20 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 A (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.