Chocolate sauce, from least to most processed

We track 16 chocolate sauce, 75% of them ultra-processed. The least processed is Hard set chocolate topping.

What makes chocolate sauce ultra-processed

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

Processed food (4)

  1. 1 Hard set chocolate topping Woolworths · 220 g NOVA group 3
  2. 2 Raw Cacao Chocolate Sauce Broma NOVA group 3
  3. 3 Premium chocolate sauce Ghirardelli · 16 oz NOVA group 3
  4. 4 Crackin Chocolate Askeys · 225g NOVA group 3

Ultra-processed food (12)

  1. 5 Chocolate Sauce Topping Askeys · 325 g NOVA group 4
  2. 6 Choc Shot Sweet Freedom · 320g NOVA group 4
  3. 7 Choc Shot Raspberry NOVA group 4
  4. 8 Simply 5 Syrup Hershey's · 21.8 oz NOVA group 4
  5. 9 White Chocolate Sauce No Gmos Torani · 16.5 oz NOVA group 4
  6. 10 Puremade Sauce Dark Chocolate Torani · 16.5 oz, 468 g NOVA group 4
  7. 11 Choco sauce Dr. Oetker · 200 g NOVA group 4
  8. 12 Syrup Hershey's · 22 oz (1 lb 6 oz) 623 g NOVA group 4
  9. 13 Chocolate Syrup Hershey's · 24 oz (1 lb 8 oz) 680 g NOVA group 4
  10. 14 Hershey's Syrup Hershey's · 48 oz NOVA group 4
  11. 15 Hersheys Syrup Choc Hershey's NOVA group 4
  12. 16 Chocolate Flavored Syrup Aldi · 580 g 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.