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Is Koko strawberry ultra-processed?

250 g Non-dairy yogurts Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Koko strawberry

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:

  • 22 ingredients
  • 4 additives
  • Nutri-Score C

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Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

water, coconut milk 17%, strawberries 7%, sugar, strawberry juice from concentrate, dextrose, glucose fructose syrup, modified starch, thickeners (pectins, guar gum), calcium phosphates, salt, vitamin d2, natural flavouring, vitamin b12, colours (carotenes), carrot concentrate, non-dairy yoghurt cultures (streptococcus thermophilus, lactobacillus bulgaricus)

Additives: E14XX Modified Starch , E160a Carotene , E412 Guar gum , E440 Pectins

As written on the pack

WATER, COCONUT MILK (17%), STRAWBERRIES (7%), SUGAR, STRAWBERRY JUICE FROM CONCENTRATE, DEXTROSE, GLUCOSE FRUCTOSE SYRUP, MODIFIED STARCH, THICKENERS (PECTINS, GUAR GUM), CALCIUM PHOSPHATES, SALT, VITAMIN D2, NATURAL FLAVOURING, VITAMIN B12, COLOURS (CAROTENES), CARROT CONCENTRATE, NON-DAIRY YOGHURT CULTURES (S.THERMOPHILUS, L. BULGARICUS).

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.

  • E14xx Modified Starch Modified starches (E1400 to E1452) are starches treated physically, with enzymes or chemically so that they thicken and hold up to heating, freezing or acidity better than ordinary starch.
  • E160a Carotene Carotenes are orange-yellow pigments, either synthesised or extracted from carrots, algae or palm oil.
  • 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.
  • Colour Colours are added to restore colour lost in processing or to make a product look more appealing.
  • 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.
  • Modified starch Modified starch is starch altered physically, with enzymes or chemically, so that it thickens, gels or survives freezing and heating better than ordinary starch.

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.

  • Dextrose Dextrose is pure glucose crystallised from starch-derived syrup.
  • 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.
3 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.
  • Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 91 non-dairy yogurts

From least to most processed, this one ranks 91st. 84% of the non-dairy yogurts 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 91 non-dairy yogurts, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5060100601359, last edited 27 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 C (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.