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Is Nestlé Fat Free Coffee Mate ultra-processed?

4 Creamer Sold in the United States and Lebanon

Pack of Nestlé Fat Free Coffee Mate

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:

  • 17 ingredients
  • 4 additives

Less processed creamer

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

Corn syrup solids, hydrogenated vegetable oil (coconut vegetable oil, palm kernel vegetable oil), and soybean, sugar, sodium caseinate (milk derivative), dipotassium phosphate, less than 2% of color added, mno, and diglycerides, sodium aluminosilicate, artificial, natural flavor, salt, annatto color

Additives: E160b Annatto , E340 Potassium phosphates , E340ii Dipotassium phosphate , E554 Sodium aluminium silicate

As written on the pack

Corn syrup solids, hydrogenated vegetable oil (coconut and/or palm kernel and/or soybean)**, sugar, sodium caseinate (a milk derivative)***, dipotassium phosphate, less than 2% of color added, mno - and diglycerides**, sodium aluminosilicate, artificial and natural flavor, salt, annatto color.

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.

  • 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.
  • Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.

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.
  • Hydrogenated oil Hydrogenation turns liquid oil into a solid fat that resists going rancid.
3 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.

  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
  • Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 91 creamer

From least to most processed, this one ranks 65th. 90% of the creamer 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 91 creamer, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0050000306220, last edited 28 September 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.
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.