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Is Coop Strawberry Trifle ultra-processed?

2 x 125 g Dairy desserts Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Coop Strawberry Trifle

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:

  • 30 ingredients
  • 10 additives
  • Nutri-Score C

Less processed dairy desserts

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

CO Layers of strawberry flavour jelly with S strawberries, sponge, vanilla flavour custard and sweetened stabilised whipped cream, 2x125ge) Ingredients Skimmed Milk, Water, Sugar, Strawberries 12%, Cream, Wheat Flour, Egg, Modified Maize Starch, Tapioca Starch, Gelling Agent (Pectin), Acidity Regulators (Citric acid, Tricalcium citrate, Trisodium citrate), Flavouring, Stabilisers (Sodium alginate, Xanthan gum), Carrot Concentrate, Blackcurrant, Thickener (Locust bean gum), Colour (Carotenes), including cereals containing gluten, Also

Additives: E160a Carotene , E330 Citric acid , E331 Sodium citrates , E331iii Trisodium citrate , E333 Calcium citrates , E333iii Tricalcium citrate , E401 Sodium alginate , E410 Locust bean gum , E415 Xanthan gum , E440 Pectins

As written on the pack

CO Layers of strawberry flavour jelly with S strawberries, sponge, vanilla flavour custard and sweetened stabilised whipped cream. 250g (2x125ge) Ingredients Skimmed Milk, Water, Sugar, Strawberries (12%), Cream (Milk) (12%), Wheat Flour, Egg, Modified Maize Starch, Tapioca Starch, Gelling Agent (Pectin), Acidity Regulators (Citric acid, Tricalcium citrate, Trisodium citrate), Flavouring, Stabilisers (Sodium alginate, Xanthan gum), Carrot Concentrate, Blackcurrant Concentrate, Thickener (Locust bean gum), Colour (Carotenes). Allergy Advice For allergens, including cereals containing gluten, see ingredients in bold. Also, may contain nut

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.

  • E160a Carotene Carotenes are orange-yellow pigments, either synthesised or extracted from carrots, algae or palm oil.
  • E401 Sodium alginate A food additive used to dissolve, dilute, disperse or otherwise physically modify a food additive or nutrient without altering its function -and without exerting any technological effect itself- in order to facilitate its handling, application or use of the food additive or nutrient.
  • E410 Locust bean gum Locust bean gum (carob gum) is a thickener and stabiliser from the seeds of the carob tree.
  • E415 Xanthan gum Xanthan gum is a thickener made by fermenting sugar with the bacterium Xanthomonas campestris.
  • E440 Pectins Pectins are gelling agents extracted from citrus peel or apple pomace.
  • Colour Colours are added to restore colour lost in processing or to make a product look more appealing.
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  • Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.
  • Gelling agent Gelling agents such as pectin, gelatine or carrageenan set liquids into gels and stabilise textures.
  • 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.

  • Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 1,414 dairy desserts

From least to most processed, this one ranks 1387th. 72% of the dairy desserts 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 1,414 dairy desserts, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5000128935333, last edited 19 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 C (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.