Is Häagen-Dazs Strawberry Cheesecake Ice Cream ultra-processed?

400 g Ice cream tubs Sold in the United Kingdom and Sweden

Yes, it's ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

Flavouring
E440 Pectins

19 ingredients
3 additives
Nutri-Score E

Less processed ice cream tubs

Taste the Difference vanilla ice cream Taste the difference 9 ingredients · no additives NOVA group 3
Organic Vanilla Ice Cream Waitrose 6 ingredients · no additives NOVA group 3
Strawberries & Cream Ice Cream Häagen-Dazs 5 ingredients · no additives NOVA group 3
Deluxe Madagascar Vanilla Ice Cream Lidl 6 ingredients · no additives NOVA group 3

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

fresh cream, skimmed milk, sugar (processing marker), water, strawberry puree 5.5%, wheat flour, egg yolk, coconut oil (processing marker), raspberry puree, soft cheese (processing marker), cream, butter (processing marker), natural flavourings (ultra-processing marker), pectins (ultra-processing marker), pectin (ultra-processing marker), lemon juice concentrate, molasses (processing marker), salt (processing marker), sodium bicarbonate

Additives: E440 Pectins , E500 Sodium carbonates , E500ii Sodium hydrogen carbonate

As written on the pack

fresh cream, condensed skimmed milk, sugar, water, strawberry puree from concentrate (5.5%), wheat flour, egg yolk, coconut oil, raspberry puree from concentrate, soft cheese, cream, butter, natural flavourings, gelling agent (pectins), thickener (pectin), lemon juice concentrate, molasses, salt, raising agent (sodium bicarbonate)

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.

E440 Pectins Pectins are gelling agents extracted from citrus peel or apple pomace.
Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.

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.

Ice creams Products in the category "Ice creams" are at least group 3.
Butter Butter, the fat churned from cream.
Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.
Cheese Cheese is milk preserved with salt, cultures and rennet.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 147 ice cream tubs

From least to most processed, this one ranks 26th. 90% of the ice cream tubs 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 147 ice cream tubs, least processed first

About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 3415581176025, last edited 22 September 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.