Is Redo Köttbullar med potatismos ultra-processed?

400 g Sold in Sweden

Yes, it's ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

Flavouring
Maltodextrin
Thickener
Vegetable fiber

39 ingredients
No additives

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Potatismos 45% (potatis, mjölk, rapsolja, smör (processing marker), salt (processing marker), potatisfiber (ultra-processing marker), vitpeppar), köttbullar 30% (gris, och nötkött, potatis, lök, salt (processing marker), vitpeppar), sås (processing marker), mjölk, vatten, grädde, köttbuljong (salt (processing marker), jästextrakt, maltodextrin (ultra-processing marker), socker (processing marker), arom (ultra-processing marker), potatisstärkelse (processing marker), sojasås (processing marker) (vatten, sojabönor, vete, salt (processing marker)), svartpeppar, vitpeppar), rårörda lingon 5% (lingon, socker (processing marker), vatten, förtjockningsmedel (ultra-processing marker) (pektin e440))

As written on the pack

Potatismos 45 % (potatis, mjölk, rapsolja, smör, salt, potatisfiber, vitpeppar), köttbullar 30 % (gris - och nötkött, potatis, lök, salt, vitpeppar), sås (mjölk, vatten, grädde, köttbuljong (salt, jästextrakt, maltodextrin, socker, arom, potatisstärkelse, sojasås (vatten, sojabönor, vete, salt), svartpeppar, vitpeppar), rårörda lingon 5 % (lingon, socker, vatten, förtjockningsmedel (pektin E440)).

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.

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.

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.

Maltodextrin Maltodextrin is a white powder made by partly breaking down starch.
Vegetable fiber Isolated plant fibres, such as inulin, oat fibre or bamboo fibre, are extracted industrially and added to change texture or support "source of fibre" claims.

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.

Butter Butter, the fat churned from cream.
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.
Sauce A prepared sauce used as an ingredient.

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About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 7340083487521, last edited 2 April 2026), available under the Open Database License. If something is wrong or the recipe has changed, you can correct it there.
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