Is Alter Eco 70% Cacao Salted Almonds Organic Dark Chocolate ultra-processed?

80 g Dark chocolates with almonds Sold in Canada

It's processed, but not ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Whole foods combined with:

Salt
Sugar

8 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

cacao beans, raw cane sugar (processing marker), almonds (almonds, salt (processing marker)), cocoa butter, Sea salt (processing marker) (fleur de sel)

As written on the pack

Organic cacao beans, Organic raw cane sugar, Salted almonds (organic almonds, salt), Organic cocoa butter, Sea salt (fleur de sel)

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 16 dark chocolates with almonds

From least to most processed, this one ranks 3rd. 75% of the dark chocolates with almonds 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 16 dark chocolates with almonds, least processed first

About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0817670011164, 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.