Is Good Karma Flax Milk +protein Unsweetened Vanilla ultra-processed?

Plant-based milk alternatives Sold in the United States

Yes, it's ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

Flavouring
E322 Lecithins
E415 Xanthan gum
E418 Gellan gum

16 ingredients
4 additives
Nutri-Score B

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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

Flaxmilk (filtered water, cold pressed flax oil), pea protein isolate, tapioca starch (processing marker), tricalcium phosphate, vanilla extract, natural flavors (ultra-processing marker), sunflower lecithin (ultra-processing marker), sea salt (processing marker), gellan gum (ultra-processing marker), xanthan gum (ultra-processing marker), vitamin a palmitate, vitamins, vitamin d2, vitamin b12

Additives: E322 Lecithins , E322i Lecithin , E415 Xanthan gum , E418 Gellan gum

As written on the pack

Flaxmilk (filtered water, cold pressed flax oil), pea protein isolate, tapioca starch, tricalcium phosphate, vanilla extract, natural flavors, sunflower lecithin, sea salt, gellan gum, xanthan gum, vitamin a palmitate, vitamin d2, vitamin b12.

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.
E415 Xanthan gum Xanthan gum is a thickener made by fermenting sugar with the bacterium Xanthomonas campestris.
E418 Gellan gum Stabilisers are substances which make it possible to maintain the physico-chemical state of a foodstuff; stabilisers include substances which enable the maintenance of a homogenous dispersion of two or more immiscible substances in a foodstuff, substances which stabilise, retain or intensify an existing colour of a foodstuff and substances which increase the binding capacity of the food, including the formation of cross-links between proteins enabling the binding of food pieces into re-constituted food.
Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.

2 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.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 593 plant-based milk alternatives

From least to most processed, this one ranks 517th. 71% of the plant-based milk alternatives 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 593 plant-based milk alternatives, least processed first

About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0829462001215, last edited 15 September 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 B (from A, best, to E).
General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.