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Is Carte d'Or Refreshing Mint Choc Chip ultra-processed?

Ice cream tubs Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Carte d'Or Refreshing Mint Choc Chip

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:

  • 37 ingredients
  • 7 additives
  • Nutri-Score D

Less processed ice cream tubs

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 milk, sugar, coconut fat, glucose syrup, sugar, cocoa mass, glucose-fructose syrup, whey, skimmed milk powder, concentrate, cocoa butter, fructose, emulsifiers (mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids, ammonium phosphatides), stabilisers (guar gum, locust bean gum, tara gum), glucose syrup, butter oil, colour (copper complexes of chlorophyllins), fat-reduced cocoa powder, flavouring, rainforest store at, 18°c, best before end (alliance certified), ra, org, compared to our previous carte d'or packaging for more information visit (www), wallsicecream, com por 02, 2025 l3037dl020 21 (per 100 ml unil %* per 68817917 *% of referenc)

Additives: E141 Copper complexes of chlorophylls and chlorophyllins , E141ii Copper complexes of chlorophyllins , E410 Locust bean gum , E412 Guar gum , E417 Tara gum , E442 Ammonium phosphatides , E471 Mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids

As written on the pack

reconstituted skimmed milk, sugar, coconut fat, glucose syrup, sugar, cocoa mass', glucose-fructose syrup, whey solids (milk), skimmed milk powder or concentrate, cocoa butter¹, fructose, emulsifiers (mono - and diglycerides of fatty acids, ammonium phosphatides), stabilisers (guar gum, locust bean gum, tara gum), glucose syrup, butter oil (milk), colour (copper complexes of chlorophyllins), fat-reduced cocoa powder', flavouring, may contain: wheat and nuts, 'rainforest store at - 18°c, best before end: alliance certified, ra,org, ²compared to our previous carte d'or packaging for more information visit: www,wallsicecream,com por 02/2025 l3037dl020 21: per 100 ml unil %* per 68817917 *% of referenc

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.

  • E141 Copper complexes of chlorophylls and chlorophyllins Colours are substances which add or restore colour in a food, and include natural constituents of foods and natural sources which are normally not consumed as foods as such and not normally used as characteristic ingredients of food.
  • E410 Locust bean gum Locust bean gum (carob gum) is a thickener and stabiliser from the seeds of the carob tree.
  • E412 Guar gum Guar gum is a thickener ground from the seeds of the guar plant.
  • E417 Tara gum Stabilisers are substances which make it possible to maintain the physico-chemical state of a foodstuff; stabilisers include substances which enable the maintenance of a homogenous dispersion of two or more immiscible substances in a foodstuff, substances which stabilise, retain or intensify an existing colour of a foodstuff and substances which increase the binding capacity of the food, including the formation of cross-links between proteins enabling the binding of food pieces into re-constituted food.
  • E442 Ammonium phosphatides Emulsifiers are substances which make it possible to form or maintain a homogenous mixture of two or more immiscible phases such as oil and water in a foodstuff.
  • E471 Mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids Mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids are made from fats and glycerol.
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  • 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.
  • Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.

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.

  • Glucose Glucose, usually listed as glucose syrup, is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
  • Glucose syrup Glucose syrup is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
  • 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.
  • Fructose Fructose is the sugar found naturally in fruit and honey, but as an ingredient it is refined industrially, mostly from corn starch.
4 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.

  • Ice creams Products in the category "Ice creams" are at least group 3.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
  • Vegetable fat Vegetable fats are oils that are solid at room temperature, such as palm or coconut fat.
  • 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 147 ice cream tubs

From least to most processed, this one ranks 139th. 90% of the ice cream tubs 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 147 ice cream tubs, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 8711327534377, last edited 30 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 D (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.