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Is Tesco Fromage frais ultra-processed?

360 g (4 x 90 g) Fruit soy yogurts Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Tesco Fromage frais

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:

  • 17 ingredients
  • 1 additive
  • Nutri-Score B

Less processed soy 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

water, sugar, soya bean 8%, strawberry purée 6%, calcium phosphate, maize starch, flavouring, fruit and vegetable concentrates (apple, carrot, radish, blackcurrant), thickener (guar gum), vitamin d, yogurt cultures, concentrated lemon juice

Additives: E412 Guar gum

As written on the pack

water, sugar, soya bean (8%), strawberry purée (6%), calcium phosphate, maize starch, flavouring, fruit and vegetable concentrates [apple, carrot, radish, blackcurrant], thickener (guar gum), vitamin d, yogurt cultures, concentrated lemon juice.

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.

  • E412 Guar gum Guar gum is a thickener ground from the seeds of the guar plant.
  • Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.
  • Thickener Thickeners, often gums or modified starches, make liquids more viscous so that a product feels richer than its ingredients alone would make it.
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.

  • Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 15 fruit soy yogurts

From least to most processed, this one ranks 8th. 100% of the fruit soy 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 15 fruit soy yogurts, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5057545009598, 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 B (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.