Is Gü Spanish Lemon Cheesecake ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- 29 ingredients
- 6 additives
- Nutri-Score E
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Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
Cream, water, sugar (processing marker), wheat flour (wheat flour, calcium carbonate, iron, niacin, thiamin), whole egg, demerara sugar (processing marker), lemon juice 5%, palm oil, wheat flour, skimmed milk powder (processing marker), rapeseed oil, cornflour, butter (processing marker), invert sugar syrup (ultra-processing marker), buttermilk, pasteurised egg yolk, lemon zest 0.4%, sodium bicarbonate, ammonium bicarbonate, citric acid, salt (processing marker), potassium sorbate (processing marker), modified maize starch (ultra-processing marker), lactic cultures
Additives: E202 Potassium sorbate , E330 Citric acid , E500 Sodium carbonates , E500ii Sodium hydrogen carbonate , E503 Ammonium carbonates , E503ii Ammonium hydrogen carbonate
As written on the pack
Cream (milk), water, sugar, wheat flour (wheat flour, calcium carbonate, iron, niacin, thiamin), pasteurised whole egg, demerara sugar, lemon juice from Spain 5%, palm oil, wholemeal wheat flour, skimmed milk powder, rapeseed oil, cornflour, butter (milk), invert sugar syrup, buttermilk powder, pasteurised egg yolk, lemon zest from Spain 0.4%, raising agents (sodium bicarbonate, ammonium bicarbonate), acidity regulator (citric acid), salt, preservative (potassium sorbate), modified maize starch, lactic cultures (milk)
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.
- 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.
- Invert sugar Invert sugar is ordinary sugar split into glucose and fructose with acid or enzymes.
7 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.
- 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.
- Sweet snacks Products in the category "Sweet snacks" are at least group 3.
- Milk powder Milk powder is milk with the water evaporated off: a preserved form of a whole food rather than an industrial extract.
Among 15 cheesecakes
From least to most processed, this one ranks 4th. 100% of the cheesecakes here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5060023970969, last edited 17 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.