Instant chocolate powders, from least to most processed

We track 51 instant chocolate powders, 88% of them ultra-processed. The least processed is Cacao Bliss.

What makes instant chocolate powders ultra-processed

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

Unprocessed or minimally processed (2)

  1. 1 Cacao Bliss 150 g NOVA group 1
  2. 2 Bournville Cocoa Cadbury · 250g NOVA group 1

Processed food (4)

  1. 3 Drinking Chocolate Sainsbury's · 300g NOVA group 3
  2. 4 Super cosy drinking chocolate Clipper · 250 g NOVA group 3
  3. 5 Classic hot chocolate powder Islands · 200g NOVA group 3
  4. 6 Cadbury Drinking Chocolate Cadbury · 400 g NOVA group 3

Ultra-processed food (45)

  1. 7 Fairtrade Instant Hot Chocolate Clipper · 350 g NOVA group 4
  2. 8 Drinking Hot Chocolate Cadbury · 750 g NOVA group 4
  3. 9 Drinking Chocolate Cadbury · 450g NOVA group 4
  4. 10 Ovaltine Original Ovaltine · 300 NOVA group 4
  5. 11 Hot Chocolate Powder Cadbury · 500 g NOVA group 4
  6. 12 Cadbury hot chocolate Cadbury · 250 g NOVA group 4
  7. 13 Original drinking chocolate Cadbury · 500 NOVA group 4
  8. 14 Hot chocolate MediKills · 45p g NOVA group 4
  9. 15 Nesquik Chocolate Flavour Nesquik · 500 g NOVA group 4
  10. 16 Green & Black'S Organic Chocolate Drink Green & Black’s · 300 g e NOVA group 4
  11. 17 Simply Hot Chocolate Nestlé · 1.9 kg NOVA group 4
  12. 18 Drinking Chocolate Tesco · 400g NOVA group 4
  13. 19 Chocolate Flavor Nesquik · 10 oz NOVA group 4
  14. 20 O'boy O'boy · 1.1 kg NOVA group 4
  15. 21 Signature Chocolate Starbucks · 330 g NOVA group 4
  16. 22 Nesquik Cocoa Nestlé · 540 g NOVA group 4
  17. 23 Nesquik Nestlé · 300g NOVA group 4
  18. 24 Drinking Chocolate Avalanche · 200 g NOVA group 4
  19. 25 Dark Chocolate Hot Cocoa Mix Swiss Miss · (8 x 1.25 oz) 10 oz (283 g) NOVA group 4
  20. 26 Galaxy hot chocolate powder Galaxy NOVA group 4
  21. 27 Goody Cao Bellarom · 500g NOVA group 4
  22. 28 Luxury Chocolate Drink Twinings · 350 g NOVA group 4
  23. 29 CHOCOLATE Nesquik Nestlé · 2.81 Lb NOVA group 4
  24. 30 Chocolate powder Nesquik · 570g NOVA group 4
  25. 31 Costa Hot Chocolate Classic Costa · 300g NOVA group 4
  26. 32 Salted caramel drinking chocolate Hotel Chocolat NOVA group 4
  27. 33 Instant hot chocolate Stockwell & Co · 375g NOVA group 4
  28. 34 Coco Classics Chocolate Supreme Cocoa Mix Cocoa Classics · 35 g NOVA group 4
  29. 35 Chocolate powder no sugar added Nestlé · 16 oz NOVA group 4
  30. 36 Instant Hot Chocolate Mix. No Name / Sans Nom • Loblaws · 500 g NOVA group 4
  31. 37 Light Hot Chocolate Drink Dairyfine · 300g NOVA group 4
  32. 38 Instant hot chocolate Bellarom · 400 g NOVA group 4
  33. 39 Tassimo Cadbury Hot Chocolate Cadbury · 7pcs NOVA group 4
  34. 40 Belgian Choc Mint Options · 220g NOVA group 4
  35. 41 Belgian Choc Options · 220 g NOVA group 4
  36. 42 Cadbury Chocolate Drink-Instant Cadbury · 28 g NOVA group 4
  37. 43 Instant Hot Chocolate Cadbury · 300g NOVA group 4
  38. 44 Bourn Vita 500Gram Pauch Cadbury NOVA group 4
  39. 45 Low Calorie Instant Hot Chocolate Sainsbury's · 250g NOVA group 4
  40. 46 Instant Hot Chocolate Choceur · 400 g NOVA group 4

Showing the first 40 of 45. The narrower categories above, or search, find the rest.

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.