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Is Double Delights ultra-processed?

Dairy desserts Sold in the United Kingdom

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:

  • 20 ingredients
  • 6 additives
  • Nutri-Score E

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

fromage frais, sugar, cream, water, strawberry purée 2.5%, modified maize starch, milk mineral concentrate, thickeners (guar gum), locust bean gum, xanthan gum, acidity regulators (citric acid), sodium citrates, flavourings, bunt sugar syrup, vitamin d, colours (carmines), carminic acid

Additives: E120 Cochineal , E330 Citric acid , E331 Sodium citrates , E410 Locust bean gum , E412 Guar gum , E415 Xanthan gum

As written on the pack

fromage frais (milk), sugar, cream (milk), water, strawberry purée from concentrate (2,5%), modified maize starch, milk mineral concentrate, thickeners: guar gum, locust bean gum, xanthan gum, acidity regulators: citric acid, sodium citrates, flavourings, bunt sugar syrup, vitamin d, colours: carmines, carminic acid,

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.

  • E120 Cochineal Carmine is a red colour made from cochineal insects.
  • E410 Locust bean gum Locust bean gum (carob gum) is a thickener and stabiliser from the seeds of the carob tree.
  • E412 Guar gum Guar gum is a thickener ground from the seeds of the guar plant.
  • 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.
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  • 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 1348th. 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 4088600407210, last edited 27 March 2026), available under the Open Database License. If something is wrong or the recipe has changed, you can correct it there.
  • 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 E (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.