Is Milbona High Protein Strawberry Drink ultra-processed?

Yogurts high in protein on a fruit layer Sold in the United Kingdom and Germany

Yes, it's ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

Colour
Flavouring
Maltodextrin
Sweetener
E120 Cochineal
E955 Sucralose

9 ingredients
2 additives

Less processed fruit yogurts

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

Ingredients Skimmed Milk Concentrate, Skimmed Milk Powder (processing marker), Strawberry Powder 0.1%, Maltodextrin (ultra-processing marker), Flavouring (ultra-processing marker), Sweetener (ultra-processing marker) (Sucralose (ultra-processing marker)), Colour (ultra-processing marker) (Carmines (ultra-processing marker))

Additives: E120 Cochineal , E955 Sucralose

As written on the pack

Ingredients Skimmed Milk Concentrate, Skimmed Milk Powder, 0.1% Strawberry Powder, Maltodextrin, Flavouring, Sweetener: Sucralose; Colour: Carmines.

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.

E120 Cochineal Carmine is a red colour made from cochineal insects.
E955 Sucralose Sucralose is a sweetener made by chlorinating sugar.
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.

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.

Maltodextrin Maltodextrin is a white powder made by partly breaking down starch.

1 ingredient that would only make it processed

Kitchen staples like sugar, salt and oil. On their own they make a food processed, not ultra-processed.

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 12 yogurts high in protein on a fruit layer

From least to most processed, this one ranks 9th. 92% of the yogurts high in protein on a fruit layer 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 12 yogurts high in protein on a fruit layer, least processed first

About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 4056489862024, last edited 31 March 2026), available under the Open Database License. If something is wrong or the recipe has changed, you can correct it there.
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The NOVA group is an automated estimate from crowdsourced data: a missing or mistyped ingredient can change it.
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