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Is Tesco Strawberry Trifles ultra-processed?

Creamy puddings Sold in the United Kingdom

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:

  • 48 ingredients
  • 17 additives
  • Nutri-Score C

Less processed dairy desserts

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, Custard 25% (Whole Milk, Skimmed Milk, Sugar, Modified Maize Starch, Water, Stabiliser (Amidated Pectin), Flavouring, Colour (Algal Carotenes)), Strawberry 13%, Sugar, Stabilised Cream 11% (Whipping Cream, Whole Milk, Dextrose, Potato Starch, Tapioca Starch, Thickener (Tara Gum)), Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Egg, Concentrated Strawberry Juice, Gelling Agents (Amidated Pectin, Calcium Lactate), Acidity Regulators (Citric Acid, Trisodium Citrate, Potassium Hydroxide), Skimmed Milk, Raising Agents (Disodium Diphosphate, Potassium Hydrogen Carbonate), Beetroot Juice, Stabiliser (Tetrasodium Diphosphate), Flavourings, Emulsifiers (Polyglycerol Esters of Fatty Acids, mono- and Diglycerides of Fatty Acids)

Additives: E160a Carotene , E160aiv Algal carotenes , E327 Calcium lactate , E330 Citric acid , E331 Sodium citrates , E331iii Trisodium citrate , E417 Tara gum , E440 Pectins , E440ii Amidated pectin , E450 Diphosphates , E450i Disodium diphosphate , E450iii Tetrasodium diphosphate , E471 Mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids , E475 Polyglycerol esters of fatty acids , E501 Potassium carbonates , E501ii Potassium hydrogen carbonate , E525 Potassium hydroxide

As written on the pack

Water, Custard (25%) [Whole Milk, Skimmed Milk, Sugar, Modified Maize Starch, Water, Stabiliser (Amidated Pectin), Flavouring, Colour (Algal Carotenes)], Strawberry (13%), Sugar, Stabilised Cream (11%) [Whipping Cream (Milk), Whole Milk, Dextrose, Potato Starch, Tapioca Starch, Thickener (Tara Gum)], Wheat Flour [Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin], Pasteurised Egg, Concentrated Strawberry Juice, Gelling Agents (Amidated Pectin, Calcium Lactate), Acidity Regulators (Citric Acid, Trisodium Citrate, Potassium Hydroxide), Dried Skimmed Milk, Raising Agents (Disodium Diphosphate. Potassium Hydrogen Carbonate), Concentrated Beetroot Juice, Stabiliser (Tetrasodium Diphosphate), Flavourings, Emulsifiers (Polyglycerol Esters of Fatty Acids, Mono - and Diglycerides of Fatty Acids)

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.

  • E160a Carotene Carotenes are orange-yellow pigments, either synthesised or extracted from carrots, algae or palm oil.
  • E327 Calcium lactate Thickeners are substances which increase the viscosity of a foodstuff.
  • E417 Tara gum Stabilisers are substances which make it possible to maintain the physico-chemical state of a foodstuff; stabilisers include substances which enable the maintenance of a homogenous dispersion of two or more immiscible substances in a foodstuff, substances which stabilise, retain or intensify an existing colour of a foodstuff and substances which increase the binding capacity of the food, including the formation of cross-links between proteins enabling the binding of food pieces into re-constituted food.
  • E440 Pectins Pectins are gelling agents extracted from citrus peel or apple pomace.
  • E450 Diphosphates Diphosphates are phosphate salts used as raising agents in baking powder, and to hold water in processed meats and cheese.
  • E471 Mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids Mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids are made from fats and glycerol.
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  • E475 Polyglycerol esters of fatty acids Emulsifiers are substances which make it possible to form or maintain a homogenous mixture of two or more immiscible phases such as oil and water in a foodstuff.
  • 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.
  • Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.
  • Gelling agent Gelling agents such as pectin, gelatine or carrageenan set liquids into gels and stabilise textures.
  • Thickener Thickeners, often gums or modified starches, make liquids more viscous so that a product feels richer than its ingredients alone would make it.
  • Modified starch Modified starch is starch altered physically, with enzymes or chemically, so that it thickens, gels or survives freezing and heating better than ordinary starch.

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.

  • Dextrose Dextrose is pure glucose crystallised from starch-derived syrup.
  • Glucose Glucose, usually listed as glucose syrup, is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
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 18 creamy puddings

From least to most processed, this one ranks 18th. 100% of the creamy puddings 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 18 creamy puddings, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5059697690082, last edited 7 June 2026), available under the Open Database License. If something is wrong or the recipe has changed, you can correct it there.
  • 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.