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Is Alter Eco 47% Cacao Coconut Toffee Organic Dark Chocolate ultra-processed?

80 g Caramel chocolates Sold in Canada

Pack of Alter Eco 47% Cacao Coconut Toffee Organic Dark Chocolate

It's processed, but not ultra-processed

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

Whole foods combined with:

  • 10 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score E

Less processed sweet snacks

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

raw cane sugar, cacao beans, Coconut toffee (raw cane sugar, desiccated coconut, butterfat, sea salt), cocoa butter, whole milk, butterfat

As written on the pack

Organic raw cane sugar, Organic cacao beans, Coconut toffee (organic raw cane sugar, organic desiccated coconut, organic butterfat, sea salt), Organic cocoa butter, Organic whole milk, Organic butterfat

What makes it processed

Culinary ingredients

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.

Category rules

Open Food Facts puts every product in this category in at least this group.

  • Chocolates Products in the category "Chocolates" are at least group 3.
  • Sweet snacks Products in the category "Sweet snacks" are at least group 3.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 20 caramel chocolates

From least to most processed, this one ranks 2nd. 85% of the caramel chocolates 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 20 caramel chocolates, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0817670010259, last edited 1 April 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.