Is For Goodness Shakes Recovery ultra-processed?

435ml Protein shakes Sold in the United Kingdom

Yes, it's ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

Flavouring
E418 Gellan gum
E460 Cellulose
E466 Sodium carboxy methyl cellulose

10 ingredients
3 additives

Less processed protein shakes

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

Skimmed Milk 90%, Sugar Fat reduced cocoa powder 1.3%, Stabilisers (cellulose (ultra-processing marker), cellulose gum (ultra-processing marker), gellan gum (ultra-processing marker)), Flavouring (ultra-processing marker), vitamins, niacin, vitamin D vitamin B12 folic adid

Additives: E418 Gellan gum , E460 Cellulose , E466 Sodium carboxy methyl cellulose

As written on the pack

Skimmed Milk (90%), Sugar Fat reduced cocoa powder (1.3%), Stabilisers (cellulose, cellulose gum, gellan gum), Flavouring, Vitamins (niacin, vitamin D vitamin B12 folic adid).

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.

E418 Gellan 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.
E460 Cellulose A food additive used to dissolve, dilute, disperse or otherwise physically modify a food additive or nutrient without altering its function -and without exerting any technological effect itself- in order to facilitate its handling, application or use of the food additive or nutrient.
E466 Sodium carboxy methyl cellulose Carboxymethyl cellulose is a thickener made by chemically modifying cellulose from wood or cotton.
Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.

1 ingredient that would only make it processed

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

Meals Products in the category "Meals" are at least group 3.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 158 protein shakes

From least to most processed, this one ranks 41st. 97% of the protein shakes 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 158 protein shakes, least processed first

About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5060075672484, last edited 27 March 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.
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