Is Garant Färdiglagade Köttbullar ultra-processed?

350 g Swedish-style pork and beef meat balls Sold in Sweden and France

Yes, it's ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

Flavouring
Glucose
Vegetable fiber

15 ingredients
No additives
Nutri-Score D

Less processed swedish-style pork and beef meat balls

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

Gris, och nötkött 73%, lök, potatisstärkelse (processing marker), potatisflingor, salt (processing marker), potatisfiber (ultra-processing marker), socker (processing marker), druvsocker (ultra-processing marker), köttbuljong (från nötkött), naturlig arom (ultra-processing marker), kryddextrakt (svartpeppar, libbstickarot)

As written on the pack

Gris - och nötkött 73 %, lök, potatisstärkelse, potatisflingor, salt, potatisfiber, socker, druvsocker, köttbuljong (från nötkött), naturlig arom, kryddextrakt (svartpeppar, libbstickarot).

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.

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.
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.

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.

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.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 19 swedish-style pork and beef meat balls

From least to most processed, this one ranks 13th. 89% of the swedish-style pork and beef meat balls 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 19 swedish-style pork and beef meat balls, least processed first

About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 7311041056387, last edited 21 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 D (from A, best, to E).
General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.