Is Danimals Smoothie Strawberry/Cotton Candy Smoothies ultra-processed?

12 Sold in the United States

Yes, it's ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

Colour
Flavouring
Modified starch

13 ingredients
No additives
Nutri-Score B

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

cultured grade a low fat milk, water, cane sugar (processing marker), modified food starch (ultra-processing marker), contains less than 1% of milk minerals, fruit, vegetable juice (for color (ultra-processing marker)), natural flavors (ultra-processing marker), lemon juice concentrate, vitamin d3, active yogurt cultures streptococcus thermophilus, lactobacillus bulgaricus

As written on the pack

cultured grade a low fat milk, water, cane sugar, modified food starch, contains less than 1% of milk minerals, fruit , vegetable juice (for color), natural flavors, lemon juice concentrate, vitamin d3, active yogurt cultures s. thermophilus , l. bulgaricus

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.
Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.
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

About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0036632010162, last edited 18 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.