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Is Ikea Almondy salted caramel ultra-processed?

420g Sold in Sweden and Germany

Pack of Ikea Almondy salted caramel

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:

  • 36 ingredients
  • 5 additives

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

caramel 21% (glucose syrup, sweetened condensed milk (milk, sugar), water, coconut fat, cream, seasalt, butter oil, pectin, lecithins, flavouring), sugar, rapeseed oil, peanuts 10%, cream, egg yolk, egg white, gluten-free wheat starch, vegetable fats (palm, shea), buttermilk, brown sugar, whole milk powder, almonds, cocoa butter, cocoa mass, salt, lactose, diphosphates, sodium carbonates, sugar syrup, soya lecithin, flavourings

Additives: E322 Lecithins , E322i Lecithin , E440 Pectins , E450 Diphosphates , E500 Sodium carbonates

As written on the pack

Salted caramel (21%) (glucose syrup, sweetened condensed milk (milk, sugar), water, coconut fat, cream (milk), seasalt, butter oil (milk), thickener (pectin), emulsifier (lecithins), flavouring), sugar, rapeseed oil, peanuts (10%), cream (milk), egg yolk, egg white, gluten-free wheat starch, vegetable fats (palm, shea), buttermilk powder, brown sugar, whole milk powder, almonds, cocoa butter, cocoa mass, salt, lactose (milk), raising agents (diphosphates, sodium carbonates), sugar syrup, emulsifier (soya lecithin), flavourings

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.
  • E440 Pectins Pectins are gelling agents extracted from citrus peel or apple pomace.
  • E450 Diphosphates Diphosphates are phosphate salts used as raising agents in baking powder, and to hold water in processed meats and cheese.
  • 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.
  • Lactose Lactose is milk sugar, crystallised industrially from whey, a by-product of cheese making.
4 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.

  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
  • Vegetable fat Vegetable fats are oils that are solid at room temperature, such as palm or coconut fat.
  • Milk powder Milk powder is milk with the water evaporated off: a preserved form of a whole food rather than an industrial extract.

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About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 7312930011401, last edited 14 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.
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.