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Is Coop Räksallad ultra-processed?

200 g Salted spreads Sold in Sweden

Pack of Coop Räksallad

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:

  • 35 ingredients
  • 8 additives
  • Nutri-Score D

Less processed salted spreads

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

Rapsolja, vitbeta, räkor 20% (Pandalus jordani, Pandalus borealis), vatten, äpple, salt, socker, äggula, ättiksprit, senapsfrö, citronjuicekoncentrat, vinäger, druvsocker, fisk, krabbextrakt, räkpulver, tomat, vitpeppar, chili, arom (bla räkarom), konserveringsmedel (e202, e211, e224), förtjockningsmedel (e415, e1442), surhetsreglerande medel (e300, e330), färgämne (e162)

Additives: E1442 Hydroxypropyl distarch phosphate , E162 Beetroot red , E202 Potassium sorbate , E211 Sodium benzoate , E224 Potassium metabisulphite , E300 Ascorbic acid , E330 Citric acid , E415 Xanthan gum

As written on the pack

Rapsolja, vitbeta, räkor 20% (Pandalus jordani, Pandalus borealis), vatten, äpple, salt, socker, äggula, ättiksprit, senapsfrö, citronjuicekoncentrat, vinäger, druvsocker, fiskpulver, krabbextrakt, räkpulver, tomatpulver, vitpeppar, chili, arom (bla räkarom), konserveringsmedel (E 202, E 211, E 224 (sulfit)), förtjockningsmedel (E415, E 1442), surhetsreglerande medel (E 300, E 330), färgämne (E 162).

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.

  • E1442 Hydroxypropyl distarch phosphate Hydroxypropyl distarch phosphate is a chemically modified starch used to thicken and stabilise desserts, sauces and soups.
  • E162 Beetroot red 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.
  • E415 Xanthan gum Xanthan gum is a thickener made by fermenting sugar with the bacterium Xanthomonas campestris.
  • 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.
  • 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.

  • Glucose Glucose, usually listed as glucose syrup, is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
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.

  • 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.
  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 532 salted spreads

From least to most processed, this one ranks 522nd. 53% of the salted spreads 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 532 salted spreads, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 7300156596536, 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 D (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.