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Is Kar Kar Peanut Salted Caramel Icecream ultra-processed?

46 g Ice cream bars Sold in Sweden

Pack of Kar Kar Peanut Salted Caramel Icecream

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:

  • 39 ingredients
  • 7 additives
  • Nutri-Score E

Less processed ice creams

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

Cocoa coating 35% (vegetable fats (coconut, rapeseed), sugar, whole MILK powder, low-fat cocoa powder 15%, natural vanilla flavouring, emulsifiers (rapeseed lecithin, polyglycerol polyricinoleate), salt), milk 15%, cream 10%, caramel 9% (sweetened condensed MILK (milk, sugar), water, sugar, butter, sea salt 3%, thickener (pectin)), sugar, peanuts 7%, roasted PEANUT butter paste 3% (roasted PEANUTS, salt), skimmed MILK powder, emulsifier (mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids), stabilizers (locust bean gum), guar gum, burned sugar syrup (sugar, water), salt

Additives: E322 Lecithins , E322i Lecithin , E410 Locust bean gum , E412 Guar gum , E440 Pectins , E471 Mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids , E476 Polyglycerol polyricinoleate

As written on the pack

Cocoa coating 35% (vegetable fats (coconut, rapeseed), sugar, whole MILK powder, low-fat cocoa powder 15%, natural vanilla flavouring, emulsifiers (rapeseed lecithin, polyglycerol polyricinoleate), salt), MILK 15%, CREAM 10%, salted caramel 9% (sweetened condensed MILK (MILK, sugar), water, sugar, butter (MILK), sea salt 3%, thickener (pectin)), sugar, PEANUTS 7%, roasted PEANUT butter paste 3% (roasted PEANUTS, salt), skimmed MILK powder, emulsifier (mono-and diglycerides of fatty acids), stabilizers locust bean gum, guar gum), burned sugar syrup (sugar, water) salt.

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.
  • E410 Locust bean gum Locust bean gum (carob gum) is a thickener and stabiliser from the seeds of the carob tree.
  • E412 Guar gum Guar gum is a thickener ground from the seeds of the guar plant.
  • E440 Pectins Pectins are gelling agents extracted from citrus peel or apple pomace.
  • E471 Mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids Mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids are made from fats and glycerol.
  • E476 Polyglycerol polyricinoleate Polyglycerol polyricinoleate (PGPR) is an emulsifier made from castor oil.
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  • 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.
  • Thickener Thickeners, often gums or modified starches, make liquids more viscous so that a product feels richer than its ingredients alone would make it.
7 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 fat Vegetable fats are oils that are solid at room temperature, such as palm or coconut fat.
  • 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 34 ice cream bars

From least to most processed, this one ranks 10th. 100% of the ice cream bars 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 34 ice cream bars, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 4770175485327, last edited 19 March 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.