Is Wild strawberry ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- 24 ingredients
- 7 additives
- Nutri-Score E
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Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
Sugar (processing marker), glucose syrup (ultra-processing marker), modified starch (ultra-processing marker), strawberry juice from concentrate 6%, dextrose (ultra-processing marker), coconut water 4%, acids (malic acid, citric acid, lactic acid), hydrolysed pea protein, acidity regulators (sodium malates, calcium carbonate (ultra-processing marker)), natural flavouring (ultra-processing marker), plant concentrates (sweet potato, black carrot), potato protein, nuts, sesame, milk Keep me in a coooool dry place, 54ge, 1.90ze
Additives: E14XX Modified Starch , E170 Calcium carbonates , E170i Calcium carbonate , E270 Lactic acid , E296 Malic acid , E330 Citric acid , E350 Sodium malates
As written on the pack
Sugar, glucose syrup, modified starch, 6% strawberry juice from concentrate, dextrose, 4% coconut water from concentrate, acids (malic acid, citric acid, lactic acid), hydrolysed pea protein, acidity regulators: sodium malates and calcium carbonate, natural flavouring, plant concentrates (sweet potato, black carrot), potato protein. Allergy Advice: Packed in a factory that handles peanuts, nuts, sesame and milk Keep me in a coooool dry place. 54ge/1.90ze
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.
- E14xx Modified Starch Modified starches (E1400 to E1452) are starches treated physically, with enzymes or chemically so that they thicken and hold up to heating, freezing or acidity better than ordinary starch.
- E170 Calcium carbonates Calcium carbonate is chalk.
- 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.
- 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.
- Glucose syrup Glucose syrup is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
4 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.
Among 486 candies
From least to most processed, this one ranks 278th. 96% of the candies here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5060384262727, last edited 26 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 E (from A, best, to E).
- General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.