Is Enlightened Peanut Butter Fudge ultra-processed?

Ice creams 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:

Flavouring
Milk proteins
Sweetener
E410 Locust bean gum
E412 Guar gum
E417 Tara gum
and 3 more

21 ingredients
8 additives
Nutri-Score D

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

Cream, water, erythritol (ultra-processing marker), egg yolks, non-gmo soluble corn fiber, peanuts, vegetable glycerin (ultra-processing marker), milk protein concentrate (ultra-processing marker), dutched cocoa, skim milk, natural flavor (ultra-processing marker), tara gum (ultra-processing marker), guar gum (ultra-processing marker), carob gum (ultra-processing marker), butter (processing marker), monk fruit extract (ultra-processing marker), pectin (ultra-processing marker), chocolate liquor, salt (processing marker), lactic acid, citric acid

Additives: E270 Lactic acid , E330 Citric acid , E410 Locust bean gum , E412 Guar gum , E417 Tara gum , E422 Glycerol , E440 Pectins , E968 Erythritol

As written on the pack

Cream, water, erythritol, egg yolks, non-gmo soluble corn fiber, peanuts, vegetable glycerin, milk protein concentrate, dutched cocoa, skim milk, natural flavor, tara gum, guar gum, carob gum, butter, monk fruit extract, pectin, chocolate liquor, salt, lactic acid, citric 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.

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.
E417 Tara gum 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.
E422 Glycerol Glycerol is a sweet-tasting liquid used to keep products moist and soft.
E440 Pectins Pectins are gelling agents extracted from citrus peel or apple pomace.
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.

3 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.
Butter Butter, the fat churned from cream.
Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 321 ice creams

From least to most processed, this one ranks 215th. 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 0852109331758, last edited 1 December 2022), 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 D (from A, best, to E).
General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.