Is Specially Selected Pistachio Crème ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- 16 ingredients
- 3 additives
- Nutri-Score E
Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
Sugar (processing marker), Palm Oil, pistachio nuts 10%, Whey Powder (ultra-processing marker), Lactose Milk, Skimmed Milk Powder (processing marker), Palm Fat, Anhydrous Milk Fat, Emulsifier (ultra-processing marker), Lecithins (ultra-processing marker), Soya Salt Flavourings, Colours (ultra-processing marker) (Copper), Complexes of Chlorophylls, Chlorophyllins (ultra-processing marker), Curcumin (ultra-processing marker)
Additives: E100 Curcumin , E140 Chlorophylls and Chlorophyllins , E322 Lecithins
As written on the pack
Sugar, Palm Oil, PISTACHIO NUTS (10%), Whey Powder (Milk), Lactose Milk), Skimmed Milk Powder, Palm Fat, Anhydrous Milk Fat, Emulsifier. Lecithins (Soya Salt Flavourings, Colours: Copper ,Complexes of Chlorophylls and Chlorophyllins, Curcumin
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.
- E100 Curcumin Colours are substances which add or restore colour in a food, and include natural constituents of foods and natural sources which are normally not consumed as foods as such and not normally used as characteristic ingredients of food.
- E140 Chlorophylls and Chlorophyllins Colours are substances which add or restore colour in a food, and include natural constituents of foods and natural sources which are normally not consumed as foods as such and not normally used as characteristic ingredients of food.
- E322 Lecithins Lecithins are fatty substances extracted mostly from soybeans, sunflower seeds or eggs, used as emulsifiers to keep fat and water mixed, for example in chocolate.
- Colour Colours are added to restore colour lost in processing or to make a product look more appealing.
- Emulsifier Emulsifiers keep fat and water from separating, giving products a smooth, stable texture over a long shelf life.
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.
- Whey Whey is the liquid left over from cheese making, usually dried into a powder and used as a cheap source of milk solids, protein and lactose.
2 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.
- Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
- Milk powder Milk powder is milk with the water evaporated off: a preserved form of a whole food rather than an industrial extract.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 4061462733130, last edited 18 May 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.