Dark chocolate biscuits, from least to most processed

We track 14 dark chocolate biscuits, 86% of them ultra-processed. The least processed is Duchy Organic Stem Ginger Biscuits Coated in Dark Chocolate.

What makes dark chocolate biscuits ultra-processed

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

Processed food (2)

  1. 1 Duchy Organic Stem Ginger Biscuits Coated in Dark Chocolate Duchy Organic · 100 g NOVA group 3
  2. 2 Chocolate Gingers Island Bakery · 133 g NOVA group 3

Ultra-processed food (12)

  1. 3 Duchy Organic Orange Biscuits Coated in Dark Chocolate Waitrose · 100 g NOVA group 4
  2. 4 Butter Cookies Dark Chocolate Celebration • 🇨🇦 Leclerc · 16 biscuits, 240 g NOVA group 4
  3. 5 Croccantini Italiamo · 150 gram NOVA group 4
  4. 6 Dark chocolate digestive biscuits Essential Waitrose NOVA group 4
  5. 7 Dark Chocolate Digestives Belmont Biscuits · 300g NOVA group 4
  6. 8 CHOCO LEIBNIZ Dark Bahlsen · 111g NOVA group 4
  7. 9 Butter Biscuits (dark chocolate) Belmont · 125g NOVA group 4
  8. 10 Zero Sugar Free Dark Chocolate Digestives Gullón · 270g NOVA group 4
  9. 11 Mcvitie's Dark Chocolate Digestive Thins Mcvitie · 180 g (30 × 6.2 g) NOVA group 4
  10. 12 Dark Chocolate Florentines Thomas Fudge’s Remarkable Bakery · 6 117g NOVA group 4
  11. 13 Dark Choco Leibniz Bahlsen · 125g NOVA group 4
  12. 14 Dark Chocolate Raspberry Border · 150 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.