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Is Silver Spoon Icing Sugar ultra-processed?

1kg Powdered sugars Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Silver Spoon Icing Sugar

No, it's a kitchen staple

  1. 1 Unprocessed
  2. 2 Kitchen staple
  3. 3 Processed
  4. 4 Ultra-processed

It is pressed or refined from a food and used for cooking, like oil, butter or sugar.

  • 3 ingredients
  • 2 additives
  • Nutri-Score E

Less processed sweeteners

Less processed isn't automatically healthier, so compare the labels for what matters to you, such as sugar or salt.

Ingredients

Icing Sugar, Anti-Caking Agent (Tricalcium Phosphate)

Additives: E341 Calcium phosphates , E341iii Tricalcium phosphate

As written on the pack

Icing Sugar, Anti-Caking Agent: Tricalcium Phosphate.

Why it is in group 2

Category rules

Open Food Facts puts every product in this category in at least this group.

  • Sugars Products in the category "Sugars" are at least group 2.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 11 powdered sugars

From least to most processed, this one ranks 9th. 0% of the powdered sugars 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 11 powdered sugars, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5010067349504, last edited 6 June 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.