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Is Olsen Skyr Icelandic Style Vanilla ultra-processed?

450g Skyrs Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Olsen Skyr Icelandic Style Vanilla

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:

  • 16 ingredients
  • 6 additives
  • Nutri-Score A

Less processed skyrs

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

Skimmed Milk, Water, Modified Maize Starch, Concentrated Lemon Juice, Vanilla Extract, Thickeners (Pectins), Xanthan Gum, Acidity Regulators (Calcium Citrates), Citric Acid, Natural Cream Flavouring, Ground Vanilla Pods, Sweeteners (Sucralose), Acesulfame K

Additives: E330 Citric acid , E333 Calcium citrates , E415 Xanthan gum , E440 Pectins , E950 Acesulfame k , E955 Sucralose

As written on the pack

Skimmed Milk, Water, Modified Maize Starch, Concentrated Lemon Juice, Vanilla Extract, Thickeners: Pectins, Xanthan Gum; Acidity Regulators: Calcium Citrates, Citric Acid; Natural Cream Flavouring (Milk), Ground Vanilla Pods, Sweeteners: Sucralose, Acesulfame K.

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.
  • E440 Pectins Pectins are gelling agents extracted from citrus peel or apple pomace.
  • E950 Acesulfame k Acesulfame K is a synthetic sweetener about 200 times sweeter than sugar, often combined with aspartame or sucralose.
  • E955 Sucralose Sucralose is a sweetener made by chlorinating sugar.
  • 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.
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  • 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.
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.

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

How the NOVA groups work

Among 43 skyrs

From least to most processed, this one ranks 41st. 67% of the skyrs 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 43 skyrs, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 4056489491248, last edited 1 June 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 A (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.