Is Lidl High Protein Natural yoghyrt ultra-processed?

500 g Sold in the United Kingdom

Yes, it's ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

Flavouring
Glucose
Glucose syrup

10 ingredients
1 additive
Nutri-Score A

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

rained natural vanilla flavoured yogurt 90% fat free greek style natural yogurt, water, sugar (processing marker), maize starch (processing marker), glucose syrup (ultra-processing marker), sweetened condensed skimmed milk, natural flavourings (ultra-processing marker), citric acid, vanilla powder, all

Additives: E330 Citric acid

As written on the pack

rained natural vanilla flavoured yogurt 90% fat free greek style natural yogurt (milk), water, sugar, maize starch, glucose syrup, sweetened condensed skimmed milk, natural flavourings, citric acid, vanilla powder, all

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.
Glucose syrup Glucose syrup is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.

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

About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 4056489851769, 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 A (from A, best, to E).
General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.