Is it ultra-processed?
Menu

Is Sainsbury's Taste the Difference Iced Coffee Ice Cream ultra-processed?

480ml (336g) Ice creams Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Sainsbury's Taste the Difference Iced Coffee Ice Cream

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:

  • 16 ingredients
  • 1 additive
  • Nutri-Score D

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

British Cows' Milk 48%, British Double Cream (Cows' Milk), Colombian Coffee Ripple 10% (Sugar, Cows' Milk, Glucose Syrup, Rice Starch, Colombian Coffee), Demerara Sugar, British Skimmed Cows' Milk Powder 4.5%, Sugar, Egg Yolk, Colour (Plain Caramel), Colombian Coffee

Additives: E150a Plain caramel

As written on the pack

British Cows' Milk (48%), British Double Cream (Cows' Milk) (25%), Colombian Coffee Ripple (10%) (Sugar, Sweetened Condensed Skimmed Cows' Milk, Glucose Syrup, Rice Starch, Colombian Coffee), Demerara Sugar, British Skimmed Cows' Milk Powder (4.5%), Sugar, Egg Yolk, Colour: Plain Caramel; Colombian Coffee.

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.

  • E150a Plain caramel Plain caramel is a brown colour made by heating sugars.
  • Colour Colours are added to restore colour lost in processing or to make a product look more appealing.

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.
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.

  • Ice creams Products in the category "Ice creams" are at least group 3.
  • Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 321 ice creams

From least to most processed, this one ranks 68th. 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 00454230, last edited 5 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 D (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.