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Is Garant Vegansk vaniljglass ultra-processed?

480 ml/300 g Plant-based ice cream tubs Sold in Sweden

Pack of Garant Vegansk vaniljglass

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:

  • 19 ingredients
  • 2 additives
  • Nutri-Score D

Less processed plant-based ice creams

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

Havrebas 54% (vatten, havre), socker, vatten, kokosolja, druvsocker, glukossirap, emulgeringsmedel (vegetabiliska mono- och diglycerider av fettsyror), förtjockningsmedel (natriumalginat), salt, vaniljstång, sirap, färgämne (karotener), naturliga aromer, Havrebasen innehåller 18% havre

Additives: E160a Carotene , E401 Sodium alginate

As written on the pack

Havrebas 54% (vatten, havre), socker, vatten, kokosolja, druvsocker, glukossirap, emulgeringsmedel (vegetabiliska mono - och diglycerider av fettsyror), förtjockningsmedel (natriumalginat), salt, vaniljstång (malen), sirap, färgämne (karotener), naturliga aromer. Havrebasen innehåller 18% havre.

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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.

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.
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.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
  • Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 11 plant-based ice cream tubs

From least to most processed, this one ranks 6th. 100% of the plant-based ice cream tubs 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 11 plant-based ice cream tubs, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 7311043007660, last edited 7 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.