Food ingredient · Sweetener (sugar)
Trehalose
A sugar made from starch, used to keep foods moist.
- Added sugar or syrup
- Industrial sugar or starch hydrolysate
- Ultra-processing marker
- Expert review pending
Concern level
A minor or very limited concern, such as being an ultra-processing marker only. The concern level sets how many points trehalose costs on a product’s receipt.
What the evidence says
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Marker of ultra-processingInfo
An ingredient class typical of ultra-processed foods (NOVA group 4). [1]
Evidence tiers say how sure the evidence is, separately from how much it matters. About evidence tiers.
Popular products that list trehalose
4 of the 17,000 most-scanned products in the US with a GoodSwap page list trehalose.
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Mango Premium Ice Cream in Sweet Rice Dough My Mochi · 9.1 oz/258 g Score 30 out of 100 Poor -
Brown Sugar Boba Milk Tea Mochi Tropical Fields · 31.8 oz (900 g) Score 15 out of 100 Bad -
Cookies and Cream My Mochi Ice Cream · 9.1 oz/258 g Score 22 out of 100 Poor -
Mochi Gummies Fruity Flavours Tropical Fields · 800 g Score 7 out of 100 Bad
Diets and allergens
- Vegan
- Yes
- Vegetarian
- Yes
- Gluten-free
- Yes
For the ingredient in general. Always check the package: a product’s own labels win.
Names GoodSwap recognizes on labels (1)
- trehalose