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Is Lindahls Kvarg ultra-processed?

150 g Cream cheeses Sold in the United Kingdom, Ireland and France

Pack of Lindahls Kvarg

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:

  • 35 ingredients
  • 3 additives
  • Nutri-Score A

Less processed cream cheeses

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

pasteurised skimmed milk, water, lactic cultures, natural vanilla flavouring, modified maize starch, colour (carotenes), sweeteners (acesulfame k, aspartame), acidity regulator (citric acid), zutaten (magerfrischkäse), wasser, natürliches vanillearoma, modifizierte stärke, farbstoff (carotin), süssungsmittel (acesulfam k, aspartam), säureregulator (citronensäure), enthält eine phenylalaninquelle, lactalis nestlé chilled dairy, 60 high street, redhill, surrey, rh1 1sh, uk, lactalis nestlé frischprodukte schweiz ag, postfach, 6302 zug, schweiz

Additives: E330 Citric acid , E950 Acesulfame k , E951 Aspartame

As written on the pack

pasteurised skimmed milk, water, lactic cultures, natural vanilla flavouring, modified maize starch, colour (carotenes) sweeteners (acesulfame k, aspartame), acidity regulator (citric acid),/ zutaten: magerfrischkäse, wasser, natürliches vanillearoma, modifizierte stärke, farbstoff (carotin), süssungsmittel (acesulfam k, aspartam), säureregulator (citronensäure), contains a source of phenylalanine / enthält eine phenylalaninquelle, lactalis nestlé chilled dairy, 60 high street, redhill, surrey, rh1 1sh, uk /lactalis nestlé frischprodukte schweiz ag, postfach, 6302 zug, schweiz

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.

  • E950 Acesulfame k Acesulfame K is a synthetic sweetener about 200 times sweeter than sugar, often combined with aspartame or sucralose.
  • E951 Aspartame Aspartame is a synthetic sweetener about 200 times sweeter than sugar, used in diet drinks and sugar-free products.
  • 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.
  • Sweetener Sweeteners give sweetness with few or no calories, many at hundreds of times the strength of sugar.
  • 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.
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.

  • Cheeses Products in the category "Cheeses" are at least group 3.
  • Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 122 cream cheeses

From least to most processed, this one ranks 113th. 64% of the cream cheeses 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 122 cream cheeses, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 3023290018415, last edited 7 June 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.