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Is Frödinge Jordgubbstårta ultra-processed?

Frozen cakes and pastries Sold in Sweden

Pack of Frödinge Jordgubbstårta

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:

  • 33 ingredients
  • 11 additives
  • Nutri-Score D

Less processed frozen cakes and pastries

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

Grädde 24%, vatten, jordgubbar 16%, socker, ägg, vetemjöl, fett (kokos), potatisstärkelse, glukosfruktossirap, modifierad potatisstärkelse, bakpulver (dinatriumdifosfat, natriumbikarbonat), skummjölkspulver, glukossirap, emulgeringsmedel (mono- och diglycerider av fettsyror), surhetsreglerande medel (citronsyra, natriumcitrater), förtjockningsmedel (pektin, johannesbrödskärnmjöl), aronia, stabiliseringsmedel (alginsyra), mjölkprotein, fläderbärskoncentrat, salt, arom, färgämne (betakaroten)

Additives: E160a Carotene , E160ai Beta-carotene , E330 Citric acid , E331 Sodium citrates , E400 Alginic acid , E440a Pectin , E450 Diphosphates , E450i Disodium diphosphate , E471 Mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids , E500 Sodium carbonates , E500ii Sodium hydrogen carbonate

As written on the pack

Grädde (24%), vatten, jordgubbar (16%), socker, ägg, vetemjöl, vegetabiliskt fett (kokos), potatisstärkelse, glukosfruktossirap, modifierad potatisstärkelse, bakpulver (dinatriumdifosfat, natriumbikarbonat), skummjölkspulver, glukossirap, emulgeringsmedel (mono - och diglycerider av fettsyror), surhetsreglerande medel (citronsyra, natriumcitrater), förtjockningsmedel (pektin, johannesbrödskärnmjöl), aroniajuicekoncentrat, stabiliseringsmedel (alginsyra), mjölkprotein, fläderbärskoncentrat, salt, arom, färgämne (betakaroten). Kan innehålla spår av nötter och mandel.

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.

  • E160a Carotene Carotenes are orange-yellow pigments, either synthesised or extracted from carrots, algae or palm oil.
  • E400 Alginic acid 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.
  • E450 Diphosphates Diphosphates are phosphate salts used as raising agents in baking powder, and to hold water in processed meats and cheese.
  • E471 Mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids Mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids are made from fats and glycerol.
  • Colour Colours are added to restore colour lost in processing or to make a product look more appealing.
  • Emulsifier Emulsifiers keep fat and water from separating, giving products a smooth, stable texture over a long shelf life.
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  • 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.

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.

  • Glucose Glucose, usually listed as glucose syrup, is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
  • Glucose syrup Glucose syrup is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
  • Milk proteins Milk proteins are proteins separated from milk, such as caseinates and whey protein concentrates, added to adjust texture or raise protein content.
  • Fructose Fructose is the sugar found naturally in fruit and honey, but as an ingredient it is refined industrially, mostly from corn starch.
5 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.

  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
  • Sweet snacks Products in the category "Sweet snacks" are at least group 3.
  • Milk powder Milk powder is milk with the water evaporated off: a preserved form of a whole food rather than an industrial extract.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 13 frozen cakes and pastries

From least to most processed, this one ranks 12th. 85% of the frozen cakes and pastries 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 13 frozen cakes and pastries, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 7310890601854, last edited 2 April 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 D (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.