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Is Frödinge Princesstårta ultra-processed?

480g Frozen cakes and pastries Sold in Sweden

Pack of Frödinge Princesstårta

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:

  • 53 ingredients
  • 10 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, grön marsipan 18% (socker, mandel 4.32%, glukossirap, vatten, maltodextrin, invertsockersirap, färgämnen (kurkumin, klorofyllinkopparkomplex)), vatten, ägg, socker, vetemjöl, glukossirap 3%, hallon, emulgeringsmedel (mono- og diglycerider av fettsyror, solroslecitin), dextros, modifierad stärkelse (hydroxipropyldestillatfosfat), bakpulver (dinatriumdifosfat, natriumbikarbonat), stärkelse (vete), fett (kokos, raps), stabiliseringsmedel (difosfater, fruktkärnmjöl, natriumalginat), fettreducerat kakaopulver, natriumkaseinat, kakaosmör, olja (raps), surhetsreglerandemedel (citronsyra, tricalciumcitrat), förtjockningsmedel (pektin), skum, mjölkspulver, vetemalt, naturlig hallonarom, salt, arom, mjölbehandlingsmedel (askorbinsyra)

Additives: E100 Curcumin , E14XX Modified Starch , E300 Ascorbic acid , E330 Citric acid , E401 Sodium alginate , E440a Pectin , E450 Diphosphates , E450i Disodium diphosphate , E500 Sodium carbonates , E500ii Sodium hydrogen carbonate

As written on the pack

Pastöriserad grädde, 18% grön marsipan (socker, mandel (24%), glukossirap, vatten, maltodextrin, invertsockersirap, färgämnen (kurkumin, klorofyllinkopparkomplex)), vatten, ägg, socker, vetemjöl, glukossirap, 3% - hallon, emulgeringsmedel (mono og diglycerider av fettsyror, solroslecitin), dextros, modifierad stärkelse (hydroxipropyldestillatfosfat), bakpulver (dinatriumdifosfat, natriumbikarbonat), stärkelse (vete), vegetabiliskt fett (kokos, raps), stabiliseringsmedel (difosfater, fruktkärnmjöl, natriumalginat), fettreducerat kakaopulver, natriumkaseinat (mjölk), kakaosmör, vegetabilisk olja (raps), surhetsreglerandemedel (citronsyra, tricalciumcitrat), förtjockningsmedel (pektin), skum - mjölkspulver, vetemalt, naturlig hallonarom, salt, arom, mjölbehandlingsmedel (askorbinsyra).

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.

  • E100 Curcumin Colours are substances which add or restore colour in a food, and include natural constituents of foods and natural sources which are normally not consumed as foods as such and not normally used as characteristic ingredients of 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.
  • E401 Sodium alginate 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.
  • 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.

  • Dextrose Dextrose is pure glucose crystallised from starch-derived syrup.
  • 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.
  • Invert sugar Invert sugar is ordinary sugar split into glucose and fructose with acid or enzymes.
  • Maltodextrin Maltodextrin is a white powder made by partly breaking down starch.
4 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.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 13 frozen cakes and pastries

From least to most processed, this one ranks 13th. 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 7310890601601, 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.