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Is Tesco Finest Lemon Curd Yogurt ultra-processed?

Cow milk yogurts Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Tesco Finest Lemon Curd 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:

  • 14 ingredients
  • 1 additive
  • Nutri-Score C

Less processed cow milk yogurts

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, Lemon Curd 24% (Sugar, Water, Butter, Egg, Lemon Juice, Cornflour, Flavouring, Lemon Oil, Salt, Colour (Lutein)), Sugar

Additives: E161b Lutein

As written on the pack

Yogurt (Milk), Lemon Curd (24%) [Sugar, Water, Butter (Milk), Pasteurised Egg, Lemon Juice, Cornflour, Flavouring, Lemon Oil, Salt, Colour (Lutein)], Sugar.

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.

  • E161b Lutein 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.
  • Colour Colours are added to restore colour lost in processing or to make a product look more appealing.
  • Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.
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.

  • Butter Butter, the fat churned from cream.
  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 127 cow milk yogurts

From least to most processed, this one ranks 99th. 57% of the cow milk yogurts 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 127 cow milk yogurts, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5059512742163, last edited 27 February 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.