Is 7 Days Croissant with cocoa filling ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- 27 ingredients
- 5 additives
- Nutri-Score E
Less processed croissants
Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
croissant (wheat flour), vegetable oils (processing marker) (palm oil, sunflower oil), sugar (processing marker), glucose-fructose syrup (ultra-processing marker), yeast, salt (processing marker), stabiliser (mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids (ultra-processing marker)), vanillin, acidity regulator (citric acid), cocoa filling 27% (sugar (processing marker)), palm oil, fat-reduced cocoa powder, dextrose (ultra-processing marker), skimmed milk powder (processing marker), ethyl alcohol, emulsifier (ultra-processing marker) (polyglycerol esters of fatty acids (ultra-processing marker)), vanillin, gelling agent (ultra-processing marker) (sodium alginate (ultra-processing marker)), cocoa filling contains 7% fat-reduced cocoa powder
Additives: E1510 Ethanol , E330 Citric acid , E401 Sodium alginate , E471 Mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids , E475 Polyglycerol esters of fatty acids
As written on the pack
croissant: wheat flour, vegetable oils (palm oil, sunflower oil), sugar, glucose-fructose syrup, yeast, salt, stabiliser (mono - and diglycerides of fatty acids), vanillin, acidity regulator (citric acid), cocoa filling 27%: sugar, palm oil, fat-reduced cocoa powder, dextrose, skimmed milk powder, ethyl alcohol, emulsifier (polyglycerol esters of fatty acids), vanillin, gelling agent (sodium alginate), cocoa filling contains 7% fat-reduced cocoa powder
What makes it ultra-processed
Cosmetic additives
Added to change how the food looks, feels or tastes, not to keep it safe. A hallmark of ultra-processed food.
- E401 Sodium alginate A food additive used to dissolve, dilute, disperse or otherwise physically modify a food additive or nutrient without altering its function -and without exerting any technological effect itself- in order to facilitate its handling, application or use of the food additive or nutrient.
- E471 Mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids Mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids are made from fats and glycerol.
- E475 Polyglycerol esters of fatty acids Emulsifiers are substances which make it possible to form or maintain a homogenous mixture of two or more immiscible phases such as oil and water in a foodstuff.
- Emulsifier Emulsifiers keep fat and water from separating, giving products a smooth, stable texture over a long shelf life.
- Gelling agent Gelling agents such as pectin, gelatine or carrageenan set liquids into gels and stabilise textures.
Substances rarely used in home kitchens
Refined or extracted in factories, such as syrups made from starch or isolated proteins. The other hallmark of ultra-processed food.
- Dextrose Dextrose is pure glucose crystallised from starch-derived syrup.
- Glucose Glucose, usually listed as glucose syrup, is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
- Fructose Fructose is the sugar found naturally in fruit and honey, but as an ingredient it is refined industrially, mostly from corn starch.
5 ingredients that would only make it processed
Kitchen staples like sugar, salt and oil. On their own they make a food processed, not ultra-processed.
- Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
- Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
- Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.
- Sweet snacks Products in the category "Sweet snacks" are at least group 3.
- Milk powder Milk powder is milk with the water evaporated off: a preserved form of a whole food rather than an industrial extract.
Among 44 croissants
From least to most processed, this one ranks 32nd. 80% of the croissants here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5201360531219, last edited 27 March 2026), available under the Open Database License. If something is wrong or the recipe has changed, you can correct it there.
- Photo: Open Food Facts contributors, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- The NOVA group is an automated estimate from crowdsourced data: a missing or mistyped ingredient can change it.
- NOVA measures processing, not nutrition. For nutrition, Open Food Facts gives this product a Nutri-Score of E (from A, best, to E).
- General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.