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Is Gü Inspirations ultra-processed?

173g Dairy chocolate desserts Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Gü Inspirations

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:

  • 90 ingredients
  • 15 additives
  • Nutri-Score E

Less processed dairy desserts

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

Whipping cream, caramel 21.5% (glucose-fructose syrup, sugar, cream, sweetened condensed milk (sugar, milk), butter, water, salt, stabiliser (pectin)), sugar, mascarpone cheese (mascarpone, acidity regulator (citric acid)), wheat flour (wheat flour, calcium carbonate, iron, niacin, thiamin), full fat soft cheese (full fat soft cheese, modified starch, preservative (potassium sorbate)), demerara sugar, honeycomb chocolate pieces 4%, milk chocolate (sugar, cocoa butter, cocoa mass, skimmed milk powder, milk sugar, whey powder, anhydrous milk fat, emulsifier), sugar, glucose syrup, water, non-hydrogenated vegetable fat (shea oil, palm oil, emulsifier (sunflower lecithin)), glazing agent (stabiliser (gum arabic), sucrose, glucose syrup, vegetable oil), raising agent (sodium bicarbonate), sweetened condensed milk (sugar, milk), wheat flour, palm oil, water, glucose syrup, invert sugar syrup, rapeseed oil, butter, pasteurised egg yolk, fat reduced cocoa powder, cocoa butter, salt, whole milk powder, beef gelatine, raising agents (sodium bicarbonate, ammonium bicarbonate), modified starch, cocoa mass, agar, preservative (potassium sorbate), thickener (pectin), flavouring, honey (honey, maltodextrin), emulsifier (soya lecithin), acidity regulator (citric acid)

Additives: E14XX Modified Starch , E170 Calcium carbonates , E170i Calcium carbonate , E202 Potassium sorbate , E322 Lecithins , E322i Lecithin , E330 Citric acid , E406 Agar , E414 Acacia gum , E428 Gelatine , E440 Pectins , E500 Sodium carbonates , E500ii Sodium hydrogen carbonate , E503 Ammonium carbonates , E503ii Ammonium hydrogen carbonate

As written on the pack

Whipping cream (milk), caramel (21.5%) (glucose-fructose syrup, sugar, cream (milk), sweetened condensed milk (sugar, milk), butter (milk), water, Guérande salt, stabiliser (pectin)), sugar, mascarpone cheese (mascarpone (milk), acidity regulator (citric acid)), wheat flour (wheat flour, calcium carbonate, iron, niacin, thiamin), full fat soft cheese (full fat soft cheese (milk), modified starch, preservative (potassium sorbate)), demerara sugar, honeycomb chocolate pieces (4%) (milk chocolate (sugar, cocoa butter, cocoa mass, skimmed milk powder, milk sugar, whey powder, anhydrous milk fat, emulsifier (soya)), sugar, glucose syrup, water, non-hydrogenated vegetable fat (shea oil, palm oil, emulsifier (sunflower lecithin)), glazing agent (stabiliser (gum arabic), sucrose, glucose syrup, vegetable oil), raising agent (sodium bicarbonate)), sweetened condensed milk (sugar, milk), wholemeal wheat flour, palm oil, water, glucose syrup, invert sugar syrup, rapeseed oil, butter (milk), pasteurised egg yolk, fat reduced cocoa powder, cocoa butter, salt, whole milk powder, beef gelatine, raising agents (sodium bicarbonate, ammonium bicarbonate), modified starch, cocoa mass, agar, preservative (potassium sorbate), thickener (pectin), flavouring, honey powder (honey, maltodextrin), emulsifier (soya lecithin), acidity regulator (citric acid).

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.

  • E14xx Modified Starch Modified starches (E1400 to E1452) are starches treated physically, with enzymes or chemically so that they thicken and hold up to heating, freezing or acidity better than ordinary starch.
  • E170 Calcium carbonates Calcium carbonate is chalk.
  • 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.
  • E406 Agar 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.
  • E414 Acacia gum Gum arabic (acacia gum) is the hardened sap of acacia trees, used to stabilise flavour emulsions in soft drinks and to coat sweets.
  • E428 Gelatine Gelatine is a gelling agent made from collagen in animal skin and bones.
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  • E440 Pectins Pectins are gelling agents extracted from citrus peel or apple pomace.
  • 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.
  • Glazing agent Glazing agents, waxes and shellac for example, coat a surface to make it shiny or stop pieces sticking together.
  • Thickener Thickeners, often gums or modified starches, make liquids more viscous so that a product feels richer than its ingredients alone would make it.
  • 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.

  • 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.
  • Invert sugar Invert sugar is ordinary sugar split into glucose and fructose with acid or enzymes.
  • Lactose Lactose is milk sugar, crystallised industrially from whey, a by-product of cheese making.
  • Maltodextrin Maltodextrin is a white powder made by partly breaking down starch.
  • 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.
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  • Fructose Fructose is the sugar found naturally in fruit and honey, but as an ingredient it is refined industrially, mostly from corn starch.
11 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.
  • Butter Butter, the fat churned from cream.
  • Honey Honey, used as a sweetener.
  • Preservative Preservatives slow spoilage by microbes.
  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
  • Vegetable fat Vegetable fats are oils that are solid at room temperature, such as palm or coconut fat.
  • 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.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 11 dairy chocolate desserts

From least to most processed, this one ranks 11th. 100% of the dairy chocolate desserts 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 dairy chocolate desserts, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5060425288129, last edited 22 July 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 E (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.