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Is Sainsbury's Madagascan Vanilla Yogurt ultra-processed?

150g Vanilla yogurt Sold in the United Kingdom and Germany

Pack of Sainsbury's Madagascan Vanilla Yogurt

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:

  • 12 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score C

Less processed vanilla yogurt

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 (Cows' Milk), Whipping Cream (Cows' Milk), Sugar, Water, Cornflour, Glucose Syrup, Cows' Milk, Flavourings, Concentrated Lemon Juice, Madagascan Vanilla Powder

As written on the pack

Yogurt (Cows' Milk), Whipping Cream (Cows' Milk) (13%), Sugar, Water, Cornflour, Glucose Syrup, Sweetened Condensed Skimmed Cows' Milk, Flavourings, Concentrated Lemon Juice, Madagascan Vanilla Powder.

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.

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.
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.

  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 32 vanilla yogurt

From least to most processed, this one ranks 14th. 91% of the vanilla yogurt 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 32 vanilla yogurt, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 01006063, last edited 13 July 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 C (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.