Is Haugen-Gruppen Konfekta Skumma döskallar ultra-processed?

150 g Marshmallows Sold in Sweden

Yes, it's ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

Colour
Emulsifier
Flavouring
Glucose
Thickener
Fructose
and 3 more

25 ingredients
3 additives
Nutri-Score E

Less processed confectioneries

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

Socker (processing marker), glukos-fruktossirap (ultra-processing marker), vatten, fett (solrosolja (processing marker), palmolja, bomullsfröolja (processing marker), tistelolja, risolja), förtjockningsmedel (ultra-processing marker) (gelatin (ultra-processing marker) (gris)), helmjölkspulver (processing marker), laktospulver, skummjölkspulver (processing marker), alkaliserat fettreducerat kakaopulver, fettreducerat kakaopulver, aromer (ultra-processing marker), tistelextrakt, färgämnen (ultra-processing marker) (e120 (ultra-processing marker), e100 (ultra-processing marker)), emulgeringsmedel (ultra-processing marker) (sojalecitin), majsstärkelse (processing marker)

Additives: E100 Curcumin , E120 Cochineal , E428 Gelatine

As written on the pack

Socker, glukos-fruktossirap, vatten, vegetabiliskt fett (solrosolja, palmolja, bomullsfröolja, tistelolja, risolja), förtjockningsmedel (gelatin (gris)), helmjölkspulver, laktospulver, skummjölkspulver, alkaliserat fettreducerat kakaopulver, fettreducerat kakaopulver, aromer, tistelextrakt, färgämnen (E120, E100), emulgeringsmedel (sojalecitin), majsstärkelse.

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.

E100 Curcumin Colours are substances which add or restore colour in a food, and include natural constituents of foods and natural sources which are normally not consumed as foods as such and not normally used as characteristic ingredients of food.
E120 Cochineal Carmine is a red colour made from cochineal insects.
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.
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.

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Thickener Thickeners, often gums or modified starches, make liquids more viscous so that a product feels richer than its ingredients alone would make it.

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.
Fructose Fructose is the sugar found naturally in fruit and honey, but as an ingredient it is refined industrially, mostly from corn starch.

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.

Candies Products in the category "Candies" are at least group 3.
Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.
Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.
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.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 28 marshmallows

From least to most processed, this one ranks 27th. 96% of the marshmallows 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 28 marshmallows, least processed first

About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 8006908000793, last edited 2 April 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.