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Is Fruit Bowl Strawberry Yoghurt Flakes ultra-processed?

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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:

  • 30 ingredients
  • 5 additives
  • Nutri-Score E

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Yogurt coating 60% (Sugar), palm fat, whey powder, rice flour, yogurt powder, emulsifier (sunflower lecithins), glazing agent (shellac, gum arabic), Fruit FlakesⓇ 40% (apple puree), fructose-glucose syrup, strawberry puree, sugar, wheat fibre, palm fat, gelling agent (pectin), aronia, acidity regulator (malic acid), natural flavouring, An average of 206g apple, strawberry, aronia used to prepare 100g of Fruit Flakes® Allergy Advice, Made in a factory that also handles nuts, peanuts, Not

Additives: E296 Malic acid , E322 Lecithins , E414 Acacia gum , E440 Pectins , E904 Shellac

As written on the pack

Yogurt flavoured coating (60%): [Sugar, palm fat, whey powder (milk), rice flour, yogurt powder (milk) (3%), emulsifier (sunflower lecithins), glazing agent (shellac, gum arabic)]. Fruit FlakesⓇ (40%): [Concentrated apple puree, fructose-glucose syrup, strawberry puree, sugar, gluten free wheat fibre, palm fat, gelling agent (pectin), concentrated aronia juice, acidity regulator (malic acid), natural flavouring]. An average of 206g apple, 13g strawberry and 4g aronia used to prepare 100g of Fruit Flakes® Allergy Advice: For allergens, see ingredients in bold. Made in a factory that also handles nuts and peanuts. Not suitable for vegetarians.

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.

  • E322 Lecithins Lecithins are fatty substances extracted mostly from soybeans, sunflower seeds or eggs, used as emulsifiers to keep fat and water mixed, for example in chocolate.
  • E414 Acacia gum Gum arabic (acacia gum) is the hardened sap of acacia trees, used to stabilise flavour emulsions in soft drinks and to coat sweets.
  • E440 Pectins Pectins are gelling agents extracted from citrus peel or apple pomace.
  • E904 Shellac Shellac is a resin secreted by lac insects, used as a glazing agent on sweets, coated chocolates and fruit.
  • Emulsifier Emulsifiers keep fat and water from separating, giving products a smooth, stable texture over a long shelf life.
  • Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.
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  • Gelling agent Gelling agents such as pectin, gelatine or carrageenan set liquids into gels and stabilise textures.
  • Glazing agent Glazing agents, waxes and shellac for example, coat a surface to make it shiny or stop pieces sticking together.

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.
  • Whey Whey is the liquid left over from cheese making, usually dried into a powder and used as a cheap source of milk solids, protein and lactose.
  • Fructose Fructose is the sugar found naturally in fruit and honey, but as an ingredient it is refined industrially, mostly from corn starch.
  • Vegetable fiber Isolated plant fibres, such as inulin, oat fibre or bamboo fibre, are extracted industrially and added to change texture or support "source of fibre" claims.
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.

  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

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About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5060043224363, 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.
  • 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 E (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.