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Is Little Moons Honey Roasted Pistachio Mochi Ice Cream ultra-processed?

6 x 32g Mochi ice cream Sold in the United Kingdom, Australia and 2 more countries

Pack of Little Moons Honey Roasted Pistachio Mochi Ice Cream

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:

  • 28 ingredients
  • 8 additives
  • Nutri-Score D

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Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Water, whole milk, sugar, rice flour, double cream, trehalose, skimmed milk powder, pistachio 2.9%, honey roasted pistachio 2.7% (sugar, pistachio, honey), coconut oil, glucose syrup, tapioca starch, emulsifiers (mono- and di glycerides of fatty acids), colours (spinach powder, annatto norbixin, curcumin, copper complexes of chlorophyllins), stabilisers (locust bean gum, guar gum), salt, soybean, Trehalose is a source of glucose

Additives: E100 Curcumin , E141 Copper complexes of chlorophylls and chlorophyllins , E141ii Copper complexes of chlorophyllins , E160b Annatto , E160bii Annatto norbixin , E410 Locust bean gum , E412 Guar gum , E570 Fatty acids

As written on the pack

Water, whole milk, sugar, rice flour, double cream (milk), trehalose*, skimmed milk powder, pistachio (2.9%), honey roasted pistachio (2.7%) (sugar, pistachio, honey), coconut oil, glucose syrup, tapioca starch, emulsifiers (mono and di glycerides of fatty acids), colours (spinach powder, annatto norbixin, curcumin, copper complexes of chlorophyllins), stabilisers (locust bean gum, guar gum), salt, soybean powder. *Trehalose is a source of glucose.

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.

  • E100 Curcumin Colours are substances which add or restore colour in a food, and include natural constituents of foods and natural sources which are normally not consumed as foods as such and not normally used as characteristic ingredients of food.
  • E141 Copper complexes of chlorophylls and chlorophyllins Colours are substances which add or restore colour in a food, and include natural constituents of foods and natural sources which are normally not consumed as foods as such and not normally used as characteristic ingredients of food.
  • E160b Annatto Colours are substances which add or restore colour in a food, and include natural constituents of foods and natural sources which are normally not consumed as foods as such and not normally used as characteristic ingredients of food.
  • 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.
  • Colour Colours are added to restore colour lost in processing or to make a product look more appealing.
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  • Emulsifier Emulsifiers keep fat and water from separating, giving products a smooth, stable texture over a long shelf life.

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.
6 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.

  • Honey Honey, used as a sweetener.
  • 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.
  • Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.
  • 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 8 mochi ice cream

From least to most processed, this one ranks 3rd. 100% of the mochi ice cream 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 8 mochi ice cream, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5027324001860, last edited 11 July 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.