Is Great Value Lowfat yogurt ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- 19 ingredients
- 5 additives
- Nutri-Score C
Less processed low-fat yogurts
Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
Cultured grade a low fat milk, sugar (processing marker), water, fructose (ultra-processing marker), peaches, modified food starch (ultra-processing marker), contains less than 1% of modified corn starch (ultra-processing marker), gelatin (ultra-processing marker), natural flavor (ultra-processing marker), carrageenan (ultra-processing marker), annatto (for color (ultra-processing marker)), malic acid, potassium sorbate (processing marker) (to maintain freshness (processing marker)), sodium citrate, vitamin a palmitate, vitamin d3, contains active yogurt cultures including lactobacillus acidophilus
Additives: E202 Potassium sorbate , E296 Malic acid , E331 Sodium citrates , E407 Carrageenan , E428 Gelatine
As written on the pack
Cultured grade a low fat milk, sugar, water, fructose, peaches, modified food starch, contains less than 1% of modified corn starch, kosher gelatin, natural flavor, carrageenan, annatto extract (for color), malic acid, potassium sorbate (to maintain freshness), sodium citrate, vitamin a palmitate, vitamin d3. contains active yogurt cultures including l. acidophilus.
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.
- E407 Carrageenan Carrageenan is a thickener and gelling agent extracted from red seaweed, used widely in dairy desserts, plant-based drinks and processed meats.
- E428 Gelatine Gelatine is a gelling agent made from collagen in animal skin and bones.
- 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.
- Modified starch Modified starch is starch altered physically, with enzymes or chemically, so that it thickens, gels or survives freezing and heating better than ordinary starch.
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.
- Fructose Fructose is the sugar found naturally in fruit and honey, but as an ingredient it is refined industrially, mostly from corn starch.
4 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.
- E202 Potassium sorbate Preservatives are substances which prolong the shelf-life of foods by protecting them against deterioration caused by micro-organisms and/or which protect against growth of pathogenic micro-organisms.
- Preservative Preservatives slow spoilage by microbes.
- Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.
- Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
Among 42 low-fat yogurts
From least to most processed, this one ranks 39th. 62% of the low-fat yogurts here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0078742034997, last edited 29 August 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 C (from A, best, to E).
- General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.