Is Yeo Valley Vanilla Ice Cream ultra-processed?
It's processed, but not ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Whole foods combined with:
- 7 ingredients
- No additives
- Nutri-Score C
Less processed ice creams and sorbets
Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
whole milk, double cream 24.5%, sugar (processing marker), skimmed milk powder (processing marker), free range egg, vanilla extract, vanilla powder
As written on the pack
organic whole milk, organic double cream 24.5% (milk), organic sugar, organic skimmed milk powder, organic pasteurised free range egg, organic vanilla extract, organic vanilla powder
What makes it processed
Processed ingredients
Processed foods in their own right, such as cheese or milk powder.
- Milk powder Milk powder is milk with the water evaporated off: a preserved form of a whole food rather than an industrial extract.
Culinary ingredients
Kitchen staples like sugar, salt and oil. On their own they make a food processed, not ultra-processed.
- Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
Category rules
Open Food Facts puts every product in this category in at least this group.
- Ice creams Products in the category "Ice creams" are at least group 3.
Among 321 ice creams
From least to most processed, this one ranks 14th. 93% of the ice creams here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5036589250838, last edited 19 February 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.