Is Farmers Union Greek Style Yogurt with a hint of Vanilla Bean ultra-processed?

400g Vanilla yogurt Sold in Australia, Singapore and Thailand

Yes, it's ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

Colour
Flavouring
Thickener
Modified starch
E14xx Modified Starch

17 ingredients
3 additives
Nutri-Score C

Less processed vanilla yogurt

Skyr Vanilla Fat Free Icelandic Style Yogurt Arla 7 ingredients · no additives NOVA group 3
West country Luxury yogurt Marks & Spencer 7 ingredients · no additives NOVA group 3
Greek Vanilla Bean Flavored With Other Natural Flavors Grade A Whole Milk Yogurt Simply Nature 17 ingredients · no additives NOVA group 3

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

milk, milk, cream, water, sugar (processing marker), thickener (ultra-processing marker) (modified starch (ultra-processing marker)), natural flavour (ultra-processing marker), acidity regulators (citric acid, sodium citrate), vanilla bean 0.01%, natural colour (ultra-processing marker) (carotene), live yogurt cultures (streptococcus thermophilus, lactobacillus bulgaricus)

Additives: E14XX Modified Starch , E330 Citric acid , E331 Sodium citrates

As written on the pack

MILK, MILK SOLIDS, CREAM (MILK), WATER, SUGAR, THICKENER (MODIFIED STARCH), NATURAL FLAVOUR, ACIDITY REGULATORS (CITRIC ACID, SODIUM CITRATE), VANILLA BEAN SEED (MIN. 0.01%), NATURAL COLOUR (CAROTENE), LIVE YOGURT CULTURES (MILK): S. THERMOPHILUS & L. BULGARICUS.

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.
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.
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 32 vanilla yogurt

From least to most processed, this one ranks 25th. 91% of the vanilla yogurt 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 32 vanilla yogurt, least processed first

About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 9300658407765, last edited 16 May 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.