Is Panda Laban ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- 14 ingredients
- 3 additives
- Nutri-Score D
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Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
socker (processing marker), vatten, glukossirap (ultra-processing marker), gelatin (ultra-processing marker), invertsockersirap (ultra-processing marker), fuktighetsbevarande medel (ultra-processing marker) (sorbitol (ultra-processing marker)), syra (äppelsyra), färgande livsmedel (ultra-processing marker) (av citron, svart morot, safflor), aromer (ultra-processing marker)
Additives: E296 Malic acid , E420 Sorbitol , E428 Gelatine
As written on the pack
socker, vatten, glukossirap, gelatin, invertsockersirap, fuktighetsbevarande medel (sorbitol), syra (äppelsyra), färgande livsmedel (koncentrat av citron, svart morot och safflor), aromer
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.
- E420 Sorbitol Sorbitol is a sugar alcohol used as a sweetener and to keep products moist.
- E428 Gelatine Gelatine is a gelling agent made from collagen in animal skin and bones.
- Colour Colours are added to restore colour lost in processing or to make a product look more appealing.
- Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.
- Humectant Humectants are substances which prevent foods from drying out by counteracting the effect of an atmosphere having a low degree of humidity, or promote the dissolution of a powder in an aqueous medium.
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.
- Invert sugar Invert sugar is ordinary sugar split into glucose and fructose with acid or enzymes.
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.
- Candies Products in the category "Candies" are at least group 3.
- Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
- Sweet snacks Products in the category "Sweet snacks" are at least group 3.
Among 486 candies
From least to most processed, this one ranks 287th. 96% of the candies here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 6412500030465, last edited 26 June 2024), available under the Open Database License. If something is wrong or the recipe has changed, you can correct it there.
- 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.