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Is Brooklea Milk Chocolate Cereal Balls Protein Vanilla ultra-processed?

221g Yogurts Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Brooklea Milk Chocolate Cereal Balls Protein Vanilla

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:

  • 28 ingredients
  • 6 additives
  • Nutri-Score A

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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

Low Fat Soft Cheese, Low Fat Yogurt, Milk Chocolate Coated Cereal Balls 10% (Sugar, Milkk Protein, Rice Flour, Whole Milk Powder, Cocoa Butter, Cocoa Mass, Sweet Whey Powder, Salt, Emulsifier (Lecithins), Vanilla Flavouring), Vanilla Preparation (Water, Maize Starch, Colour (Carrot Concentrate), Vanilla Flavouring, Thickener (Guar Gum), Acidity Regulators (Citric Acid), Sodium Citrates, Sweeteners (Acesulfame K), Sucralose)

Additives: E322 Lecithins , E330 Citric acid , E331 Sodium citrates , E412 Guar gum , E950 Acesulfame k , E955 Sucralose

Also detected, but not matched to one ingredient: Whey.

As written on the pack

Low Fat Soft Cheese (MILK) (45%), Low Fat Yogurt (MILK) (36%), Milk Chocolate Coated Cereal Balls (10%) (Sugar, Milkk Protein, Rice Flour, Whole Milk Powder, Cocoa Butter, Cocoa Mass, Sweet Whey Powder (MILK), Salt, Emulsifier: Lecithins (Soya); Vanilla Flavouring), Vanilla Preparation (Water, Maize Starch, Colour: Carrot Concentrate; Vanilla Flavouring, Thickener: Guar Gum; Acidity Regulators: Citric Acid, Sodium Citrates; 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.

  • E322 Lecithins Lecithins are fatty substances extracted mostly from soybeans, sunflower seeds or eggs, used as emulsifiers to keep fat and water mixed, for example in chocolate.
  • E412 Guar gum Guar gum is a thickener ground from the seeds of the guar plant.
  • 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.
  • Emulsifier Emulsifiers keep fat and water from separating, giving products a smooth, stable texture over a long shelf life.
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  • 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.

  • Whey Whey is the liquid left over from cheese making, usually dried into a powder and used as a cheap source of milk solids, protein and lactose.
5 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.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
  • Cheese Cheese is milk preserved with salt, cultures and rennet.
  • Milk powder Milk powder is milk with the water evaporated off: a preserved form of a whole food rather than an industrial extract.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 1,209 yogurts

From least to most processed, this one ranks 1194th. 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 1,209 yogurts, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 4061459894226, 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 A (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.