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Is Yaar Nordic Yogurt Bar - Strawberry ultra-processed?

4 x 40 g Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Yaar Nordic Yogurt Bar - Strawberry

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:

  • 34 ingredients
  • 6 additives
  • Nutri-Score E

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Yogurt 51% (milk, Live Kefir, Yogurt Culture), toffee glaze 19% (vegetable fat (palm kernel oil, coconut oil, shea oil, palm oil), sugar, skimmed milk powder, butter, emulsifier (sunflower lecithin, sorbitan tristearate), colour (ammonia caramel), salt, natural flavouring, natural vanilla flavouring), sugar, milk protein, cloudberry-lemon filling 6% (sugar, cloudberry 1.5%, lemon 0.6%, water, thickener (pectin), acidity regulator (lactic acid), natural flavouring), natural flavouring

Additives: E150c Ammonia caramel , E270 Lactic acid , E322 Lecithins , E322i Lecithin , E440 Pectins , E492 Sorbitan tristearate

Also detected, but not matched to one ingredient: E150c Ammonia caramel.

As written on the pack

Yogurt 51% (milk, Live Kefir and Yogurt Culture* (milk)), toffee glaze 19% (vegetable fat (palm kernel oil, coconut oil, shea oil, palm oil**), sugar, skimmed milk powder, butter, emulsifier (sunflower lecithin, sorbitan tristearate), colour (ammonia caramel), salt, natural flavouring, natural vanilla flavouring), sugar, milk protein, cloudberry-lemon filling 6% (sugar, cloudberry (25%), lemon (10%), water, thickener pectin, acidity regulator lactic acid, natural flavouring), natural flavouring.

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.

  • E150c Ammonia caramel Ammonia caramel is a brown colour made by heating sugars with ammonia compounds.
  • E322 Lecithins Lecithins are fatty substances extracted mostly from soybeans, sunflower seeds or eggs, used as emulsifiers to keep fat and water mixed, for example in chocolate.
  • E440 Pectins Pectins are gelling agents extracted from citrus peel or apple pomace.
  • E492 Sorbitan tristearate 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.
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  • 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.
6 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.

  • Butter Butter, the fat churned from cream.
  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
  • Vegetable fat Vegetable fats are oils that are solid at room temperature, such as palm or coconut fat.
  • Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.
  • Milk powder Milk powder is milk with the water evaporated off: a preserved form of a whole food rather than an industrial extract.

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About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5060627050098, 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 E (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.