Is COCOS organic strawberry ultra-processed?

200ml Non-dairy fermented foods Sold in the United Kingdom

Yes, it's ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

Colour
Thickener

13 ingredients
No additives
Nutri-Score B

Less processed non-dairy fermented foods

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

Coconut Milk 80% (Filtered Water Coconut), Strawberry Puree 18% (Strawberries, Fruit Extract, Water, Fruit, Vegetable Blend (Colour (ultra-processing marker))), Thickener (ultra-processing marker) (Tapioca Starch (processing marker)), Live Kefir Cultures Including Bifidobacterium (Non Ingrediend)

As written on the pack

Organic Coconut Milk (80%) (Filtered Water Organic Coconut), Organic Strawberry Puree (18%) (Organic Strawberries, Organic Fruit Extract, Water*, Organic Fruit and Vegetable Blend (Colour)), Thickener: Organic Tapioca Starch, Live Vegan Kefir Cultures Including Bifidobacterium* (*Non Organic Ingrediend)

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.

Colour Colours are added to restore colour lost in processing or to make a product look more appealing.
Thickener Thickeners, often gums or modified starches, make liquids more viscous so that a product feels richer than its ingredients alone would make it.

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 94 non-dairy fermented foods

From least to most processed, this one ranks 36th. 83% of the non-dairy fermented foods 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 94 non-dairy fermented foods, least processed first

About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5060298881694, last edited 27 March 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 B (from A, best, to E).
General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.