Chocolate eggs, from least to most processed

We track 24 chocolate eggs, 88% of them ultra-processed. The least processed is Smooth Hazelnut Chocolate Easter Egg.

What makes chocolate eggs ultra-processed

The signs of ultra-processing found most often, and the share of chocolate eggs that contain each:

Processed food (3)

  1. 1 Smooth Hazelnut Chocolate Easter Egg Divine · 90g NOVA group 3
  2. 2 Eco Egg milk chocolate hollow egg organic Montezuma's · 150 g NOVA group 3
  3. 3 Marbled chocolate egg Cocoa loco NOVA group 3

Ultra-processed food (21)

  1. 4 Creamy. Truffle mini eggs Galaxy NOVA group 4
  2. 5 Kinder Egg Kinder · 20g NOVA group 4
  3. 6 dairy milk egg Cadbury NOVA group 4
  4. 7 Hen Mini Eggs Lindt · 90g 16st NOVA group 4
  5. 8 Milk chocolate eggs Lindor · 80 g NOVA group 4
  6. 9 mini eggs Cadbury Cadbury NOVA group 4
  7. 10 Lindor Chocolate Egg Lindt Lindor · 28 g NOVA group 4
  8. 11 Egg-stra special chocolate eggs Tony's Chocolonely NOVA group 4
  9. 12 Mini eggs NOVA group 4
  10. 13 Wispa Easter Egg Cadbury · 182.5g NOVA group 4
  11. 14 Twirl Easter Egg Cadbury NOVA group 4
  12. 15 Cream egg Easter egg Cadbury Dairy Milk NOVA group 4
  13. 16 Mini egg Easter Egg Cadbury NOVA group 4
  14. 17 Terrys Orange Mini Eggs Terrys Chocolate Orange NOVA group 4
  15. 18 creme egg Cadbury NOVA group 4
  16. 19 Easter Egg selection Lidl · 185g NOVA group 4
  17. 20 Påskeskum Cloetta · 100g NOVA group 4
  18. 21 Mini Eggs Easter Egg Cadbury NOVA group 4
  19. 22 Terrys chocolate Orange mini eggs Terry's NOVA group 4
  20. 23 Mini Eggs Orange Cadbury NOVA group 4
  21. 24 Mini Eggs Cadbury · 80g NOVA group 4

Within each group, products with fewer signs of ultra-processing, additives and ingredients come first. This ordering is ours, for comparison; it is not part of NOVA.