windbraker
Unknown brand
Processing
4
Ultra-processed
Group 4 of 4 on the NOVA scale
Additives listed
7
2 we grade moderate or higher
5 of them not yet assessed here
Nutrients
–
Nothing above the low band
Or no figures recorded at all
Three separate readings, kept apart on purpose. This is not a score, and none of it says this product is harmful.
Additives (7)
This label lists 2 colours, 1 additive and 1 thickener or gelling agent. 3 more we cannot place from the code alone.
E104
Quinoline Yellow
Greenish yellow colour
What it is. A synthetic dye giving a dull greenish yellow.
Why it is used. Colours sweets, ices, sauces and some smoked fish.
What the evidence says. One of the Southampton Six, carrying the same hyperactivity signal in sensitive children. EFSA also lowered its acceptable daily intake in 2009 after re-examining the older toxicology.
Children's activity warning required in the UK and EU. Not approved for general food use in the US.
Assessed against UK FSA, EFSA. Full entry for E104
E171
Titanium dioxide
Whitener and opacifier
What it is. A bright white pigment used to make sweets, icing, sauces and coatings look opaque and white.
Why it is used. Purely cosmetic. It changes appearance, not taste or safety of the food.
What the evidence says. In 2021 the EU food safety body EFSA concluded it could no longer be considered safe as a food additive, mainly because possible genetic damage from the tiny particles could not be ruled out. That is a precautionary call rather than proof of harm in people.
Banned as a food additive in the EU since 2022. Still permitted in the UK and the US, which reached different conclusions on the same evidence. A clear case of the same additive, different rules.
Assessed against EFSA, UK FSA, US FDA. Full entry for E171
Also on the label, not assessed here yet
- E142 No entry in our register
- E215 No entry in our register
- E217 Sodium propyl p-hydroxybenzoate
- E422 Glycerol other
- E428 Gelatine thickener
1 of these is not on the GB permitted list
E217 Sodium propyl p-hydroxybenzoate — Withdrawn in 2006 alongside E216, of which it is the sodium salt.
Absent from Assimilated Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008, Annex II, the register of additives permitted in Great Britain. That is a statement about the food additive register and nothing else: several of these are permitted in medicines, where different rules apply, and this catalogue carries some entries that are not food. Our product data is crowd sourced and worldwide, so on something sold here a code from this list usually means an imported line, an out of date entry, or a mistake in the source rather than anything about the contents. It is not a statement that this product is unsafe, and the pack is the authority.
Names and jobs come from the register of additives permitted in Great Britain, which we have not finished transcribing: a code shown without a name is a gap in our coverage, not a finding that it is unapproved. Naming one is not grading it either. Full detail appears only where we have an assessment against a named authority, so all of this describes our coverage rather than these additives. Most are common and low concern.
Ingredients
the active ingredient per capsule is: simeticone 100mg. the other ingredients are: gelatin, glycerin (e422), titanium dioxide (e171), sodium ethyl parahydroxybenzoate (e215), sodium propyl parahydroxybenzoate (e217), purified water, colours: green s (e142), quinoline yellow lake (e104).
As printed on the pack, in the producer's own order: ingredients are listed by weight, so what comes first is most of what is in it. E numbers link to their assessment where we have one.