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Is Costa Greek style yogurt ultra-processed?

Greek-style yogurts Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Costa Greek style yogurt

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:

  • 25 ingredients
  • 1 additive
  • Nutri-Score B

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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

Greek Style Yogurt, Blackberry, Strawberry, Blackcurrant Compe Strawberries, Blackcurrants, Sugar, Maize Starch, Flavourings, Concentrated Lemon Juice, Crispy Granola 10% (OAT Flakes, Sugar, WHEAT Flakes, Rapeseed Oil, Wheat Crispies (Whe Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Malted WHEAT Flour, Dextrose Monohydrate, Rapeseed ated Coconut, Glucose Syrup, Salt, Honey)

Additives: E502 Carbonates

As written on the pack

Greek Style Yogurt (MILK), Blackberry, Strawberry and Blackcurrant Compe Strawberries, Blackcurrants, Sugar, Maize Starch, Flavourings, Concentrated Lemon Juice ( Crispy Granola (10%) (OAT Flakes, Sugar, WHEAT Flakes, Rapeseed Oil, Wheat Crispies (Whe Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Malted WHEAT Flour, Dextrose Monohydrate, Rapeseed ated Coconut, Glucose Syrup, Salt, Honey).

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.

  • 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.

  • Dextrose Dextrose is pure glucose crystallised from starch-derived syrup.
  • 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.
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.

  • Honey Honey, used as a sweetener.
  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 359 greek-style yogurts

From least to most processed, this one ranks 282nd. 53% of the greek-style yogurts 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 359 greek-style yogurts, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 96205617, last edited 22 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.