Is Good Health Kids ABC Veggie Bites ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- 24 ingredients
- 3 additives
- Nutri-Score E
Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
Potato, Potato Starch (processing marker), Rice Flour, Sunflower Oil (processing marker), Safflower Oil (processing marker), Cheddar Cheese (processing marker) (Milk, Salt (processing marker), Enzymes (processing marker)), Salt (processing marker), Whey (ultra-processing marker), Butter (processing marker) (Cream, Salt (processing marker)), Nonfat Dry Milk (processing marker), Potassium Citrate, Potassium Chloride, Turmeric (color (ultra-processing marker)), Lactic Acid, Natural Flavor (ultra-processing marker), Disodium Phosphate, Citric Acid, Lactic Cultures (processing marker)
Additives: E270 Lactic acid , E330 Citric acid , E339ii Disodium phosphate
As written on the pack
Dehydrated Potato, Potato Starch, Rice Flour, Sunflower Oil and/or Safflower Oil, Cheddar Cheese (Pasteurized Milk, Salt, Enzymes), Salt, Whey, Butter (Cream, Salt), Nonfat Dry Milk, Potassium Citrate, Potassium Chloride, Turmeric [color], Lactic Acid, Natural Flavor, Disodium Phosphate, Citric Acid, Lactic Cultures
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.
- Colour Colours are added to restore colour lost in processing or to make a product look more appealing.
- 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.
- 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.
8 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.
- Butter Butter, the fat churned from cream.
- Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
- Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.
- Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.
- Cheese Cheese is milk preserved with salt, cultures and rennet.
- Milk powder Milk powder is milk with the water evaporated off: a preserved form of a whole food rather than an industrial extract.
- Microbial culture Microbial cultures ferment foods such as yoghurt, cheese and sourdough.
- Enzyme Enzymes carry out traditional processes such as cheese making and baking.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0755355498155, last edited 9 July 2025), 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.