Is Falkenberg Handskalade Räkor ultra-processed?

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It's processed, but not ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Whole foods combined with:

Sugar
E202 Potassium sorbate

11 ingredients
3 additives
Nutri-Score C

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Nordhavsräkor (Pandalus borealis), lake (vatten salt, surhetsreglerande medel (citronsyra), socker (processing marker), konserver, ingsmedel (natriumbensoat, kaliumsorbat (processing marker)))

Additives: E202 Potassium sorbate , E211 Sodium benzoate , E330 Citric acid

As written on the pack

Nordhavsräkor (Pandalus borealis)*, lake (vatten salt, surhetsreglerande medel (citronsyra), socker, konserver - ingsmedel (natriumbensoat, kaliumsorbat)).

What makes it processed

Culinary ingredients

Kitchen staples like sugar, salt and oil. On their own they make a food processed, not ultra-processed.

Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

Preservation and traditional processing

Keep food safe or ferment it, like preservatives and cultures. A sign of processing, not ultra-processing.

E202 Potassium sorbate Preservatives are substances which prolong the shelf-life of foods by protecting them against deterioration caused by micro-organisms and/or which protect against growth of pathogenic micro-organisms.

How the NOVA groups work

About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 7340083481437, last edited 7 July 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.