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Is Great Value Original Vanilla Low Fat Yogurt ultra-processed?

32 oz (2 Lb) 907g Low-fat yogurts Sold in the United States

Pack of Great Value Original Vanilla Low Fat Yogurt

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
  • 5 additives
  • Nutri-Score C

Less processed low-fat yogurts

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

cultured grade a low fat milk, water, sugar, fructose, modified food starch, contains less than 1% of modified corn starch, gelatin, natural and artificial flavors, annatto (for color), caramel color, citric acid, potassium sorbate (to maintain freshness), sodium citrate, vitamin a palmitate, vitamin d3, contains active yogurt cultures including l, acidophilus

Additives: E150c Ammonia caramel , E202 Potassium sorbate , E330 Citric acid , E331 Sodium citrates , E428 Gelatine

Also detected, but not matched to one ingredient: E150c Ammonia caramel.

As written on the pack

cultured grade a low fat milk, water, sugar, fructose, modified food starch, contains less than 1% of modified corn starch, kosher gelatin, natural and artificial flavors, annatto extract (for color), caramel color, citric 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.

  • E150c Ammonia caramel Ammonia caramel is a brown colour made by heating sugars with ammonia compounds.
  • 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.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 42 low-fat yogurts

From least to most processed, this one ranks 38th. 62% of the low-fat yogurts 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 42 low-fat yogurts, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0078742369266, last edited 18 May 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.