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Is Ehrmann Love Chocolate Dessert ultra-processed?

4 x 100 g Chocolate creamy puddings Sold in Sweden

Pack of Ehrmann Love Chocolate Dessert

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:

  • 26 ingredients
  • 2 additives
  • Nutri-Score C

Less processed 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

Pastöriserad skum, mjölk, pasteurisert skummetmelk, vassle, myse (melk), glukos-fruktossirap, sotker, sukker, grädde, fløte, modifierad stärkelse, modifisert stivelse, choklad, sjokolade 1.2% (socker, sukker, kakaosmör, kakaosmør, kakaopulver), fettreducerad kakao 1.2%, förtjockningsmedel, fortykningsmiddel (e407), arom, aroma

Additives: E14XX Modified Starch , E407 Carrageenan

As written on the pack

Pastöriserad skum - mjölk/pasteurisert skummetmelk, vassle (mjölk)/myse (melk), glukos-fruktossirap, sotker/sukker, grädde/fløte, modifierad stärkelse/modifisert stivelse, choklad/sjokolade 1,2% (socker/sukker, kakaosmör/kakaosmør, kakaopulver), fettreducerad kakao 1,2%, förtjockningsmedel/fortykningsmiddel (E 407), arom/aroma.

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.

  • E14xx Modified Starch Modified starches (E1400 to E1452) are starches treated physically, with enzymes or chemically so that they thicken and hold up to heating, freezing or acidity better than ordinary starch.
  • E407 Carrageenan Carrageenan is a thickener and gelling agent extracted from red seaweed, used widely in dairy desserts, plant-based drinks and processed meats.
  • Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.
  • 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.

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.
  • Whey Whey is the liquid left over from cheese making, usually dried into a powder and used as a cheap source of milk solids, protein and lactose.
  • Fructose Fructose is the sugar found naturally in fruit and honey, but as an ingredient it is refined industrially, mostly from corn 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 9 chocolate creamy puddings

From least to most processed, this one ranks 4th. 100% of the chocolate creamy puddings 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 9 chocolate creamy puddings, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 4002971427110, 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 C (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.