Is Coop X-tra Stekta köttbullar ultra-processed?

1 kg Sold in Sweden

Yes, it's ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

Glucose

15 ingredients
No additives
Nutri-Score D

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Gris, och nötkött 63%, lök, potatis, potatismjöl, potatisflingor, vatten, salt (processing marker), lök, svartpeppar, druvsocker (ultra-processing marker), Fött, uppfött och slaktat i Tyskland, Fött, uppfött och slaktat på Irland

As written on the pack

Gris* - och nötkött** 63%, lök, potatis, potatismjöl, potatisflingor, vatten, salt, lökpulver, svartpeppar, druvsocker. *Fött, uppfött och slaktat i Tyskland. **Fött, uppfött och slaktat på Irland.

What makes it ultra-processed

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.

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.

Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.

How the NOVA groups work

About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 7300156599377, 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.