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Is Gü Milk chocolate mousse with ganache ultra-processed?

140g Dairy mousses Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Gü Milk chocolate mousse with ganache

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:

  • 32 ingredients
  • 6 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

Milk chocolate 40% (sugar, cocoa butter, whole milk powder, cocoa mass, emulsifier (soya lecithin), natural flavouring), whipping cream, egg white, pasteurised egg yolk, salted butter (butter, salt), whole milk, dark chocolate 6% (cocoa mass, sugar, fat reduced cocoa powder, emulsifier (soya lecithin)), sugar, glucose syrup, stabilisers (guar gum, xanthan gum), preservative (potassium sorbate), fat reduced cocoa powder, acidity regulator (citric acid), water

Additives: E202 Potassium sorbate , E322 Lecithins , E322i Lecithin , E330 Citric acid , E412 Guar gum , E415 Xanthan gum

As written on the pack

Milk chocolate 40% (sugar, cocoa butter, whole milk powder, cocoa mass, emulsifier (soya lecithin), natural flavouring), whipping cream (milk), pasteurised egg white, pasteurised egg yolk, salted butter (butter (milk), salt), whole milk, dark chocolate 6% (cocoa mass, sugar, fat reduced cocoa powder, emulsifier (soya lecithin)), sugar, glucose syrup, stabilisers (guar gum, xanthan gum), preservative (potassium sorbate), fat reduced cocoa powder, acidity regulator (citric acid), water.

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.
  • E412 Guar gum Guar gum is a thickener ground from the seeds of the guar plant.
  • E415 Xanthan gum Xanthan gum is a thickener made by fermenting sugar with the bacterium Xanthomonas campestris.
  • 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.

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.
6 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.
  • Preservative Preservatives slow spoilage by microbes.
  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
  • 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 10 dairy mousses

From least to most processed, this one ranks 5th. 100% of the dairy mousses 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 10 dairy mousses, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5060425286866, last edited 27 March 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.