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Is Nestlé Ski Mouse ultra-processed?

Sweet mousses Sold in the United Kingdom and France

Pack of Nestlé Ski Mouse

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:

  • 39 ingredients
  • 9 additives
  • Nutri-Score C

Less processed desserts

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

Strawberry Mousse 88% (Whole Milk, Strawberry Puree 8.8%, Sugar, Cream (from Milk), Skimmed Milk Powder, Pork Gelatine, Glucose Fructose Syrup, Acidity Regulators (Citric Acid, Sodium Hydroxyde), Modified Maize Starch, Emulsifier (Lactic acid esters of mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids), Thickeners (Locust Bean Gum, Guar Gum), Flavouring, Fruit and Vegetable Concentrates (apple, blackcurrant, radish)), Strawberry Sauce 12% (Water, Sugar, Strawberry Puree 0.6%, Modified Maize Starch, Cream Powder (from Milk), Thickeners (Pectin, Guar Gum), Natural Flavouring, Acidity Regulators (Citric Acid, Trisodium Citrate), Colour (Carmine))

Additives: E120 Cochineal , E330 Citric acid , E331 Sodium citrates , E331iii Trisodium citrate , E410 Locust bean gum , E412 Guar gum , E428 Gelatine , E440 Pectins , E472b Lactic acid esters of mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids

As written on the pack

Strawberry Mousse 88% [Whole Milk, Strawberry Puree 8.8%, Sugar, Cream (from Milk), Skimmed Milk Powder, Pork Gelatine, Glucose Fructose Syrup, Acidity Regulators (Citric Acid, Sodium Hydroxyde), Modified Maize Starch, Emulsifier (Lactic acid esters of mono - and diglycerides of fatty acids), Thickeners (Locust Bean Gum, Guar Gum), Flavouring, Fruit and Vegetable Concentrates (apple, blackcurrant, radish)], Strawberry Sauce 12% [Water, Sugar, Strawberry Puree 0.6%, Modified Maize Starch, Cream Powder (from Milk), Thickeners (Pectin, Guar Gum), Natural Flavouring, Acidity Regulators (Citric Acid, Trisodium Citrate), Colour (Carmine)].

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.

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  • 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.
  • Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.
  • Thickener Thickeners, often gums or modified starches, make liquids more viscous so that a product feels richer than its ingredients alone would make it.
  • Modified starch Modified starch is starch altered physically, with enzymes or chemically, so that it thickens, gels or survives freezing and heating better than ordinary starch.

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.
  • Fructose Fructose is the sugar found naturally in fruit and honey, but as an ingredient it is refined industrially, mostly from corn starch.
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.

  • Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.
  • 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.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 20 sweet mousses

From least to most processed, this one ranks 19th. 100% of the sweet mousses 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 20 sweet mousses, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 3023290456330, last edited 5 May 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 C (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.