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Is Tesco Strawberry Yogurt Drinks ultra-processed?

600g Flavoured yogurt drinks Sold in the United Kingdom and Ireland

Pack of Tesco Strawberry Yogurt Drinks

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
  • 2 additives
  • Nutri-Score D

Less processed yogurt drinks

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

Skimmed Milk, Sugar, Strawberry Juice from Concentrate 4.5%, Cream, Flavouring, Maize Starch, Milk Mineral Concentrate, Colour (Anthocyanins), Starter Culture including lactobacillus casei Culture, Vitamin C, Thickener (Carob Gum), Milk Proteins, vitamins, vitamin B6, Vitamin D

Additives: E163 Anthocyanins , E410 Locust bean gum

As written on the pack

Skimmed Milk, Sugar, Strawberry Juice from Concentrate (4.5%), Cream (Milk), Flavouring, Maize Starch, Milk Mineral Concentrate, Colour (Anthocyanins), Starter Culture including L. Casei Culture (Milk), Vitamin C, Thickener (Carob Gum), Milk Proteins, Vitamin B6, Vitamin D.

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.

  • E163 Anthocyanins 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.
  • E410 Locust bean gum Locust bean gum (carob gum) is a thickener and stabiliser from the seeds of the carob tree.
  • 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.
  • Thickener Thickeners, often gums or modified starches, make liquids more viscous so that a product feels richer than its ingredients alone would make it.

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.

  • Milk proteins Milk proteins are proteins separated from milk, such as caseinates and whey protein concentrates, added to adjust texture or raise protein content.
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 10 flavoured yogurt drinks

From least to most processed, this one ranks 7th. 100% of the flavoured yogurt drinks 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 10 flavoured yogurt drinks, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5051898691622, last edited 10 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 D (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.