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Is Oreo ice cream with oreo cookie pieces ultra-processed?

220 ml Ice creams Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Oreo ice cream with oreo cookie pieces

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:

  • 44 ingredients
  • 10 additives
  • Nutri-Score E

Less processed ice creams

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

Chocolate flavoured sandwich cookies 48% (wheat flour, sugar, fat reduced cocoa powder, palm oil, glucose syrup, raising agent (sodium carbonate), salt, flavouring, acidity regulators (sodium, ammonium hydroxide)), skimmed milk, sugar, cookie pieces 5.5% (wheat flour, sugar, rapeseed oil, fat reduced cocoa powder 0.33%, glucose-fructose syrup, wheat starch, raising agents (ammonium carbonates, potassium carbonates, sodium carbonates), palm oil, salt, emulsifier (soya lecithin), acidity regulator (sodium hydroxide), flavouring), coconut oil, cream 2.5%, glucose syrup, whey, skimmed milk, emulsifier (e471), stabilisers (e410, e412), flavouring

Additives: E322 Lecithins , E322i Lecithin , E410 Locust bean gum , E412 Guar gum , E471 Mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids , E500 Sodium carbonates , E500i Sodium carbonate , E503 Ammonium carbonates , E524 Sodium hydroxide , E527 Ammonium hydroxide

As written on the pack

Chocolate flavoured sandwich cookies 48% (wheat flour, sugar, fat reduced cocoa powder, palm oil, glucose syrup, raising agent (sodium carbonate), salt, flavouring, acidity regulators (sodium and ammonium hydroxide)), reconstituted dried skimmed milk, sugar, crushed cookie pieces 5.5% (wheat flour, sugar, rapeseed oil, fat reduced cocoa powder 6%, glucose-fructose syrup, wheat starch, raising agents (ammonium carbonates, potassium carbonates, sodium carbonates), palm oil, salt, emulsifier (soya lecithin), acidity regulator (sodium hydroxide), flavouring), coconut oil, cream 2.5% (milk), glucose syrup, dried whey (milk), dried skimmed milk, emulsifier (E471), stabilisers (E410, E412), flavouring.

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.

  • E322 Lecithins Lecithins are fatty substances extracted mostly from soybeans, sunflower seeds or eggs, used as emulsifiers to keep fat and water mixed, for example in chocolate.
  • E410 Locust bean gum Locust bean gum (carob gum) is a thickener and stabiliser from the seeds of the carob tree.
  • E412 Guar gum Guar gum is a thickener ground from the seeds of the guar plant.
  • E471 Mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids Mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids are made from fats and glycerol.
  • 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.

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.
  • Glucose syrup Glucose syrup is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
  • Whey Whey is the liquid left over from cheese making, usually dried into a powder and used as a cheap source of milk solids, protein and lactose.
  • Fructose Fructose is the sugar found naturally in fruit and honey, but as an ingredient it is refined industrially, mostly from corn starch.
5 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.

  • Ice creams Products in the category "Ice creams" are at least group 3.
  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.
  • 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 321 ice creams

From least to most processed, this one ranks 238th. 93% of the ice creams 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 321 ice creams, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5010238019328, last edited 27 March 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 E (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.