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Is 7days choco croissant ultra-processed?

60 g Croissants Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of 7days choco croissant

Yes, it's ultra-processed

  1. 1 Unprocessed
  2. 2 Kitchen staple
  3. 3 Processed
  4. 4 Ultra-processed

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

  • 51 ingredients
  • 8 additives
  • Nutri-Score E

Less processed croissants

Less processed isn't automatically healthier, so compare the labels for what matters to you, such as sugar or salt.

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

dough (wheat flour), vegetable oils (palm oil, sunflower oil, cottonseed oil, rapeseed oil), sugar, glucose-fructose syrup, yeast, iodized salt, stabilizer (mono- and diglycerides of acids fats), vanillin, acidity corrector (citric acid), preservative (calcium propionate 0.1%), chocolate with 32% milk (sugar), cocoa butter, whole milk powder, cocoa mass, skimmed milk powder, emulsifier (soy lecithin), vanillin, cocoa filling 15% (palm oil), glucose syrup, sugar, low fat cocoa powder 7%, skimmed milk powder, ethyl alcohol, emulsifier (polyglycerol esters of fatty acids), vanillin, gelatinizing agent (sodium alginate), preservative (potassium sorbate 0.1%), decor (sugar), vegetable oil (palm kernel oil), low-fat cocoa powder, skimmed milk powder, lactose, emulsifier (soy lecithin), vanillin

Additives: E1510 Ethanol , E202 Potassium sorbate , E282 Calcium propionate , E322 Lecithins , E322i Lecithin , E330 Citric acid , E401 Sodium alginate , E475 Polyglycerol esters of fatty acids

As written on the pack

dough: wheat flour, vegetable oils (palm oil, sunflower oil, cottonseed oil, rapeseed oil), sugar, glucose-fructose syrup, yeast, iodized salt, stabilizer (mono - and diglycerides of acids fats), vanillin, acidity corrector (citric acid), preservative (0,1% calcium propionate), chocolate with 32% milk: sugar, cocoa butter, whole milk powder, cocoa mass, skimmed milk powder, emulsifier (soy lecithin), vanillin, 15% cocoa filling: palm oil, glucose syrup, sugar, low fat cocoa powder 7%, skimmed milk powder, ethyl alcohol, emulsifier (polyglycerol esters of fatty acids), vanillin, gelatinizing agent (sodium alginate) , preservative (0,1% potassium sorbate), decor: sugar, partially hydrogenated vegetable oil (palm kernel oil), low-fat cocoa powder, skimmed milk powder, lactose (milk), emulsifier (soy lecithin), vanillin,

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.

  • E322 Lecithins Lecithins are fatty substances extracted mostly from soybeans, sunflower seeds or eggs, used as emulsifiers to keep fat and water mixed, for example in chocolate.
  • 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.
  • 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.

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.

  • Glucose Glucose, usually listed as glucose syrup, is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
  • Glucose syrup Glucose syrup is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
  • Lactose Lactose is milk sugar, crystallised industrially from whey, a by-product of cheese making.
  • Fructose Fructose is the sugar found naturally in fruit and honey, but as an ingredient it is refined industrially, mostly from corn starch.
7 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.

  • E202 Potassium sorbate Preservatives are substances which prolong the shelf-life of foods by protecting them against deterioration caused by micro-organisms and/or which protect against growth of pathogenic micro-organisms.
  • Preservative Preservatives slow spoilage by microbes.
  • 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.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 44 croissants

From least to most processed, this one ranks 33rd. 80% of the croissants here are ultra-processed.

Ranked by NOVA group, then by the number of ultra-processing signs, additives and ingredients. Our ordering, not part of NOVA.

All 44 croissants, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5201360527106, 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.