Is Asda Dark Chocolate Chips ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- 6 ingredients
- 1 additive
- Nutri-Score E
Less processed pastry helpers
Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
cocoa mass, sugar (processing marker), cocoa butter, fat reduced cocoa powder, emulsifier (ultra-processing marker) (soya lecithins (ultra-processing marker))
Additives: E322 Lecithins
As written on the pack
cocoa mass, sugar, cocoa butter, fat reduced cocoa powder, emulsifier (soya lecithins),
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.
- Emulsifier Emulsifiers keep fat and water from separating, giving products a smooth, stable texture over a long shelf life.
1 ingredient that would only make it processed
Kitchen staples like sugar, salt and oil. On their own they make a food processed, not ultra-processed.
- Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
Among 86 pastry helpers
From least to most processed, this one ranks 20th. 84% of the pastry helpers here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 27258071, last edited 25 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.