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Is Oykos ultra-processed?

110g Cow milk yogurts Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Oykos

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:

  • 19 ingredients
  • 4 additives
  • Nutri-Score D

Less processed cow milk 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, Sugar, Water, Dark chocolate 1.5% (cocoa butter, cocoapowder, fat reduced cocoapowder, concentrated butter, sugar), Modified maize starch, Thickeners (pectin, guar gum), Flavouring, Acidity regulators (citric acid, calcium citrate, sodium citrate), see ingredients underlined

Additives: E330 Citric acid , E333 Calcium citrates , E412 Guar gum , E440 Pectins

As written on the pack

Yogurt (milk), Sugar, Water, Dark chocolate flakes(1.5%) (cocoa butter, cocoapowder, fat reduced cocoapowder, concentrated butter, sugar), Modified maize starch, Thickeners(pectin, guar gum), Flavouring, Acidity regulators (citric acid, calcium citrate, sodium citrate) For allergens, see ingredients underlined.

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.

  • E412 Guar gum Guar gum is a thickener ground from the seeds of the guar plant.
  • E440 Pectins Pectins are gelling agents extracted from citrus peel or apple pomace.
  • 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.
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 127 cow milk yogurts

From least to most processed, this one ranks 119th. 57% of the cow milk 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 127 cow milk yogurts, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5060360506913, last edited 27 February 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 D (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.