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Is Enlightened Low Fat Ice Cream Sandwiches, Mint ultra-processed?

Ice creams Sold in the United States

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
  • 9 additives
  • Nutri-Score A

Less processed ice creams

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

Ice cream (skim milk), milk protein isolate, erythritol (natural sweetener), non-gmo soluble corn fiber, cream, natural flavor, locust bean gum, guar gum, mint, monk fruit extract, wafer (wheat flour), erythritol, isomalt, palm oil, caramel color, oat fiber, whole grain brown rice protein, cocoa, salt, baking soda, natural flavor, soy lecithin, monk fruit extract

Additives: E150c Ammonia caramel , E322 Lecithins , E322i Lecithin , E410 Locust bean gum , E412 Guar gum , E500 Sodium carbonates , E500ii Sodium hydrogen carbonate , E953 Isomalt , E968 Erythritol

Also detected, but not matched to one ingredient: E150c Ammonia caramel.

As written on the pack

Ice cream: skim milk, milk protein isolate, erythritol (natural sweetener), non-gmo soluble corn fiber, cream, natural flavor, locust bean gum, guar gum, mint, monk fruit extract. wafer: wheat flour, erythritol, isomalt, palm oil, caramel color, oat fiber, organic whole grain brown rice protein, cocoa, salt, baking soda, natural flavor, soy lecithin, monk fruit extract.

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.

  • E150c Ammonia caramel Ammonia caramel is a brown colour made by heating sugars with ammonia compounds.
  • E322 Lecithins Lecithins are fatty substances extracted mostly from soybeans, sunflower seeds or eggs, used as emulsifiers to keep fat and water mixed, for example in chocolate.
  • 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.
  • E953 Isomalt Stabilisers are substances which make it possible to maintain the physico-chemical state of a foodstuff; stabilisers include substances which enable the maintenance of a homogenous dispersion of two or more immiscible substances in a foodstuff, substances which stabilise, retain or intensify an existing colour of a foodstuff and substances which increase the binding capacity of the food, including the formation of cross-links between proteins enabling the binding of food pieces into re-constituted food.
  • E968 Erythritol Humectants are substances which prevent foods from drying out by counteracting the effect of an atmosphere having a low degree of humidity, or promote the dissolution of a powder in an aqueous medium.
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  • Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.
  • Sweetener Sweeteners give sweetness with few or no calories, many at hundreds of times the strength of sugar.

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.

  • Milk proteins Milk proteins are proteins separated from milk, such as caseinates and whey protein concentrates, added to adjust texture or raise protein content.
  • Vegetable fiber Isolated plant fibres, such as inulin, oat fibre or bamboo fibre, are extracted industrially and added to change texture or support "source of fibre" claims.
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.

  • Ice creams Products in the category "Ice creams" are at least group 3.
  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 321 ice creams

From least to most processed, this one ranks 237th. 93% of the ice creams 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 321 ice creams, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0852109331611, last edited 29 November 2018), 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 A (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.