Is Fresh & Easy Café expresso en grains ultra-processed?

1 kg Arabica coffees Sold in the United States and France

Pack of Fresh & Easy Café expresso en grains

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:

  • 16 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score B

Less processed arabica coffees

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

Wheat flour (wheat, barley, niacin, reduced iron, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), water, butter (processing marker) (cream), cinnamon, sugar (processing marker), natural flavor (ultra-processing marker), salt (processing marker), distilled vinegar

As written on the pack

Wheat flour (wheat,barley, niacin, reduced iron, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), water, butter (cream), cinnamon, sugar, natural flavor, salt, distilled vinegar.

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.

  • Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.
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.

  • Butter Butter, the fat churned from cream.
  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 9 arabica coffees

From least to most processed, this one ranks 8th. 22% of the arabica coffees 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 9 arabica coffees, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 20044558, last edited 18 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.
  • NOVA measures processing, not nutrition. For nutrition, Open Food Facts gives this product a Nutri-Score of B (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.