Is Oikos Greek Yogurt ultra-processed?

2400 g Greek-style yogurts Sold in Canada

Yes, it's ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

Flavouring
Fruit juice concentrate
E100 Curcumin
E410 Locust bean gum

16 ingredients
3 additives
Nutri-Score B

Less processed greek-style 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

yogurt (skim milk, cream, active bacterial cultures), cane sugar (processing marker), key lime preparation (water, cane sugar (processing marker), corn starch (processing marker), lime juice concentrate, natural flavour (ultra-processing marker), lemon juice concentrate, locust bean gum (ultra-processing marker), sodium citrate, fruit juice concentrate (ultra-processing marker), turmeric for colour (ultra-processing marker))

Additives: E100 Curcumin , E331 Sodium citrates , E410 Locust bean gum

As written on the pack

yogurt (skim milk, cream, active bacterial cultures), cane sugar, key lime preparation (water, cane sugar, corn starch, lime juice concentrate, natural flavour, lemon juice concentrate, locust bean gum, sodium citrate, fruit juice concentrate and turmeric for colour)

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.

E100 Curcumin 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.
E410 Locust bean gum Locust bean gum (carob gum) is a thickener and stabiliser from the seeds of the carob tree.
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.

Fruit juice concentrate An ingredient mostly produced industrially and rarely used in home kitchens.

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.

Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.
Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 359 greek-style yogurts

From least to most processed, this one ranks 306th. 53% of the greek-style yogurts 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 359 greek-style yogurts, least processed first

About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0056800558388, last edited 16 July 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.