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Is Highlands coffee Vietnamese Coffee With Milk ultra-processed?

185ml Coffee milks Sold in the United States

Pack of Highlands coffee Vietnamese Coffee With Milk

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:

  • 13 ingredients
  • 4 additives
  • Nutri-Score E

Less processed coffee milks

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

Water, Sugar, skim milk 4%, Vegetable creamer 4%, coffee 3%, synthetic coffee flavor, acidity regulator (e500ii), emulsifier (e473), synthetic color (caramel color Class III (e150c))

Additives: E150c Ammonia caramel , E473 Sucrose esters of fatty acids , E500 Sodium carbonates , E500ii Sodium hydrogen carbonate

Also detected, but not matched to one ingredient: E150c Ammonia caramel.

As written on the pack

Water, Sugar, skim milk (4%) Vegetable creamer (4%), concentrated coffee (3%), synthetic coffee flavor, acidity regulator: INS 500(ii), emulsifier: INS 473, synthetic color: caramel color Class III (INS 150c), contains 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.

  • E150c Ammonia caramel Ammonia caramel is a brown colour made by heating sugars with ammonia compounds.
  • E473 Sucrose esters of fatty acids Emulsifiers are substances which make it possible to form or maintain a homogenous mixture of two or more immiscible phases such as oil and water in a foodstuff.
  • Emulsifier Emulsifiers keep fat and water from separating, giving products a smooth, stable texture over a long shelf life.
1 ingredient that would only make it processed

Kitchen staples like sugar, salt and oil. On their own they make a food processed, not ultra-processed.

  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 8 coffee milks

From least to most processed, this one ranks 6th. 75% of the coffee milks 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 8 coffee milks, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 8936079140021, last edited 25 April 2025), 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.