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Is Mighty Slice High Protein Cheesecake ultra-processed?

115 g Cheesecakes Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Mighty Slice High Protein Cheesecake

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:

  • 26 ingredients
  • 4 additives
  • Nutri-Score B

Less processed cakes

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

Medium Fat Soft Cheese, Semi-Skimmed Milk, Vital Wheat Gluten, Whey Protein, Whey, Water, Natural Erythritol, Wheat flour (With Added Calcium, Iron, Niacin, Thiamine), Vegetable Margarine (Palm Oil, Rapeseed Oil), Sugar, Corn Starch, Cinnamon powder, Natural Caramel Flavour, Acidity Regulator (Citric Acid), Thickener (Xanthan Gum), Sweetener (Sucralose, Allergens in bold)

Additives: E330 Citric acid , E415 Xanthan gum , E955 Sucralose , E968 Erythritol

Also detected, but not matched to one ingredient: E968 Erythritol.

As written on the pack

Medium Fat Soft Cheese (MILK), Semi-Skimmed Milk (MILK), Vital Wheat Gluten, Whey Protein Concentrate (MILK), Dried Whey powder (MILK), Water, Natural Erythritol, Wheat flour (With Added Calcium, Iron, Niacin, Thiamine), Vegetable Margarine (Palm Oil, Rapeseed Oil), Sugar, Corn Starch, Cinnamon powder, Natural Caramel Flavour, Acidity Regulator: Citric Acid, Thickener: Xanthan Gum, Sweetener: Sucralose. Allergens in bold.

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.

  • E415 Xanthan gum Xanthan gum is a thickener made by fermenting sugar with the bacterium Xanthomonas campestris.
  • E955 Sucralose Sucralose is a sweetener made by chlorinating sugar.
  • E968 Erythritol Humectants are substances which prevent foods from drying out by counteracting the effect of an atmosphere having a low degree of humidity, or promote the dissolution of a powder in an aqueous medium.
  • 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.
  • Thickener Thickeners, often gums or modified starches, make liquids more viscous so that a product feels richer than its ingredients alone would make it.

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.

  • Milk proteins Milk proteins are proteins separated from milk, such as caseinates and whey protein concentrates, added to adjust texture or raise protein content.
  • 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.
4 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.
  • Sweet snacks Products in the category "Sweet snacks" are at least group 3.
  • Cheese Cheese is milk preserved with salt, cultures and rennet.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 15 cheesecakes

From least to most processed, this one ranks 7th. 100% of the cheesecakes 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 15 cheesecakes, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5070000907703, last edited 20 April 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 B (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.