Is Marabou never stop ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- 20 ingredients
- 4 additives
- Nutri-Score E
Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
Socker (processing marker), kakaosmör, kakaomassa, vasslepulver (ultra-processing marker), skummjölkspulver (processing marker), smörfett, vassleprodukt (ultra-processing marker), ytbehandlingsmedel (ultra-processing marker) (gummi arabicum (ultra-processing marker), karnaubavax (ultra-processing marker), bivax (ultra-processing marker)), emulgeringsmedel (ultra-processing marker) (sojalecitin), glukos-fruktossirap (ultra-processing marker), färg (ultra-processing marker) (e172 (ultra-processing marker)), arom (ultra-processing marker), keladelicor (63), Ingwt
Additives: E172 Iron oxides and iron hydroxides , E414 Acacia gum , E901 White and yellow beeswax , E903 Carnauba wax
As written on the pack
Socker, kakaosmör, kakaomassa, vasslepulver (mjölk), skummjölkspulver, smörfett, vassleprodukt (mjölk), ytbehandlingsmedel (gummi arabicum, karnaubavax, bivax), emulgeringsmedel (sojalecitin), glukos-fruktossirap,färg (E172), arom. SE Kan innehålla jordnötter, nötter och vete. keladelicor(63 0%) Ingwt
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.
- E172 Iron oxides and iron hydroxides 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.
- E414 Acacia gum Gum arabic (acacia gum) is the hardened sap of acacia trees, used to stabilise flavour emulsions in soft drinks and to coat sweets.
- E901 White and yellow beeswax A food additive used to dissolve, dilute, disperse or otherwise physically modify a food additive or nutrient without altering its function -and without exerting any technological effect itself- in order to facilitate its handling, application or use of the food additive or nutrient.
- E903 Carnauba wax Carnauba wax comes from the leaves of a Brazilian palm and gives sweets and coated chocolates their shine.
- Colour Colours are added to restore colour lost in processing or to make a product look more appealing.
- Emulsifier Emulsifiers keep fat and water from separating, giving products a smooth, stable texture over a long shelf life.
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- Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.
- Glazing agent Glazing agents, waxes and shellac for example, coat a surface to make it shiny or stop pieces sticking together.
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.
- Whey Whey is the liquid left over from cheese making, usually dried into a powder and used as a cheap source of milk solids, protein and lactose.
- Whey product An ingredient mostly produced industrially and rarely used in home kitchens.
- Fructose Fructose is the sugar found naturally in fruit and honey, but as an ingredient it is refined industrially, mostly from corn 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.
- Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
- Milk powder Milk powder is milk with the water evaporated off: a preserved form of a whole food rather than an industrial extract.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 7622300790820, last edited 26 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.