Is Sainsbury's taste the difference New york vanilla cheesecake slices ultra-processed?

2 x 90g Cheesecakes Sold in the United Kingdom

Yes, it's ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

Invert sugar

28 ingredients
2 additives
Nutri-Score E

Less processed cakes

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 Full Fat Soft Cheese (Cows' Milk), Fortified Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Sugar (processing marker), Free Range Whole Egg, British Cream (Cows' Milk), Palm Oil, Butter (processing marker) (Cows' Milk), Demerara Sugar (processing marker), British Single Cream (Cows' Milk), Maize Starch (processing marker), Water, Pasteurised Free Range Egg Yolk, Invert Sugar Syrup (ultra-processing marker), Rapeseed Oil, Madagascan Vanilla Extract, Salt (processing marker), Raising Agent (Sodium Bicarbonate), Madagascan Vanilla Seed

Additives: E500 Sodium carbonates , E500ii Sodium hydrogen carbonate

As written on the pack

British Full Fat Soft Cheese (Cows' Milk) (36%), Fortified Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Sugar, Pasteurised Free Range Whole Egg, British Soured Cream (Cows' Milk) (8%), Palm Oil, Butter (Cows' Milk), Demerara Sugar, British Single Cream (Cows' Milk), Maize Starch, Water, Pasteurised Free Range Egg Yolk, Invert Sugar Syrup, Rapeseed Oil, Madagascan Vanilla Extract, Salt, Raising Agent: Sodium Bicarbonate; Madagascan Vanilla Seed.

What makes it ultra-processed

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.

Invert sugar Invert sugar is ordinary sugar split into glucose and fructose with acid or enzymes.

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.
Sweet snacks Products in the category "Sweet snacks" are at least group 3.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 15 cheesecakes

From least to most processed, this one ranks 2nd. 100% of the cheesecakes 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 15 cheesecakes, least processed first

About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 01742589, last edited 27 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 E (from A, best, to E).
General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.