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Chocolates with sweeteners, from least to most processed

We track 10 chocolates with sweeteners, 80% of them ultra-processed. The least processed is Vanilla Crunch Dark Chocolate.

What makes chocolates with sweeteners ultra-processed

The signs of ultra-processing found most often, and the share of chocolates with sweeteners that contain each:

Processed food (2)

  1. 1 Vanilla Crunch Dark Chocolate Hu · 60g 3
  2. 2 Nut Butter Filled Cashew Butter + Pure Vanilla Bean Dark Chocolate Hu · 60g 3

Ultra-processed food (8)

  1. 3 Dark Chocolate HealthyCo · 100 g 4
  2. 4 Mjölk choklad utan tillsatt socker Cloetta · 100 g 4
  3. 5 Chocolate con leche y almendras enteras con edulcorante Hacendado 4
  4. 6 72% Cacao Dark Chocolate Chips Trader Joe's · 10 oz 4
  5. 7 No Sugar Added Dark Choclate Lindt · 100 g 4
  6. 8 No Added Sugar Smooth Dark Chocolate Sainsbury's · 100g 4
  7. 9 Orange and almond dark chocolate RED · 100 g 4
  8. 10 Zero Sugar Chocolate Candy Hershey's · 3 oz (85 g) 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.