Is Ivars Kyckling köttbullar ultra-processed?

Meat balls 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:

Flavouring
Glucose
Vegetable fiber

18 ingredients
No additives
Nutri-Score D

Less processed meat balls

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

kycklingkött 37%, kycklingkött 34%, potatisstärkelse (processing marker), kycklingfett, vatten, potatisflinger, salt ambufiber, lök, druvsocker (ultra-processing marker), potatisfiber (ultra-processing marker), socker (processing marker), svartpeppar, koriander, kryddextrakt (muskot, muskotblomma, libbsticka), arom (ultra-processing marker)

As written on the pack

Maskinurbenat kycklingkött 37%, kycklingkött 34%, potatisstärkelse, kycklingfett, vatten, potatisflinger, salt ambufiber, lök, druvsocker, potatisfiber, socker, svartpeppar, koriander, kryddextrakt (muskot, muskotblomma, libbsticka), arom,

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.

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.
Vegetable fiber Isolated plant fibres, such as inulin, oat fibre or bamboo fibre, are extracted industrially and added to change texture or support "source of fibre" claims.

2 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.

Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.
Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 47 meat balls

From least to most processed, this one ranks 37th. 74% of the meat balls 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 47 meat balls, least processed first

About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 7300328324004, 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 D (from A, best, to E).
General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.