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Is Alter Eco Orange dark chocolate ultra-processed?

100g Dark chocolates with orange Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Alter Eco Orange dark chocolate

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:

  • 10 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score E

Less processed dark chocolates with orange

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

cocoa mass, cane sugar, cocoa butter, candied orange peel 10% (orange peel, sugar, icing sugar, glucose syrup), orange essential oil, vanilla

As written on the pack

Organic cocoa mass, organic cane sugar, organic cocoa butter, organic candied orange peel (10%) [organic orange peel, organic sugar, organic icing sugar, organic glucose syrup], organic orange essential oil, organic vanilla.

What makes it ultra-processed

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.
3 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.

  • Chocolates Products in the category "Chocolates" are at least group 3.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
  • Sweet snacks Products in the category "Sweet snacks" are at least group 3.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 10 dark chocolates with orange

From least to most processed, this one ranks 4th. 80% of the dark chocolates with orange 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 10 dark chocolates with orange, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 3700214619247, 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.