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Is Trader Joe's Bananas & Cream Yogurt ultra-processed?

4 oz Fruit yogurts Sold in the United States and Spain

Pack of Trader Joe's Bananas & Cream 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:

  • 18 ingredients
  • 2 additives
  • Nutri-Score C

Less processed fruit 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

pasteurized grade a milk, sugar, cream, banana, modified corn starch, whey protein, tapioca starch, natural flavors, gelatin, turmeric, annatto (color), citric acid actie cultures (streptococcus thermophilus, lactobacillus bulgaricus, lactobacillus acidophilus, bifidobacterium lcase), cultured after pasteurization

Additives: E160b Annatto , E428 Gelatine

As written on the pack

PASTEURIZED GRADE A MILK, SUGAR, CREAM, BANANA PUREE, MODIFIED CORN STARCH, WHEY PROTEIN CONCENTRATE, TAPIOCA STARCH, NATURAL FLAVORS, KOSHER GELATIN, TURMERIC AND ANNATTO (COLOR), CITRIC ACID ACTIE CULTURES (S. THERMOPHILUS, L. BULGARICUS, L. ACIDOPHILUS, BIFIDOBACTERIUM LCASE). CULTURED AFTER PASTEURIZATION. CONTAINS MILK.

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.

  • E160b Annatto 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.
  • E428 Gelatine Gelatine is a gelling agent made from collagen in animal skin and bones.
  • 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.
  • 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.

  • 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 247 fruit yogurts

From least to most processed, this one ranks 211th. 89% of the fruit 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 247 fruit yogurts, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 00814591, last edited 15 September 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.