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Is Belmont Milk Chocolate Filled Lebkuchen ultra-processed?

300g Chocolate-covered biscuits Sold in the United Kingdom and France

Pack of Belmont Milk Chocolate Filled Lebkuchen

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:

  • 26 ingredients
  • 8 additives

Less processed chocolate biscuits

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

apricot fruit filling 31% (Glucose-Fructose Syrup, Dried Apricot, Sugar, Citric Acid, Potassium Citrates, Pectins, Flavouring), Wheat Flour, milk chocolate 21% (Sugar, Cocoa Butter, Whole Milk Powder, Cocoa Mass, Sweet Whey, Skimmed Milk Powder, Lecithins, Butterfat), Glucose-Fructose Syrup, Sugar, Caramelised Sugar Syrup, Potassium Carbonate, Diphosphates, Sodium Carbonates (Spices), Salt

Additives: E322 Lecithins , E330 Citric acid , E332 Potassium citrates , E440 Pectins , E450 Diphosphates , E500 Sodium carbonates , E501 Potassium carbonates , E501i Potassium carbonate

As written on the pack

APRICOT FRUIT FILLING (31%) (Glucose-Fructose Syrup, Dried Apricot, Sugar, Acidity Regulators: Citric Acid, Potassium Citrates; Gelling Agent: Pectins; Flavouring), Wheat Flour, MILK CHOCOLATE (21%) (Sugar, Cocoa Butter*, Whole Milk Powder, Cocoa Mass*, Sweet Whey Powder (Milk), Skimmed Milk Powder, Emulsifier: Lecithins (Soya); Butterfat (Milk)), Glucose-Fructose Syrup, Sugar, Caramelised Sugar Syrup, Raising Agents: Potassium Carbonate, Diphosphates, Sodium Carbonates: Spices, Salt.

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.
  • E440 Pectins Pectins are gelling agents extracted from citrus peel or apple pomace.
  • E450 Diphosphates Diphosphates are phosphate salts used as raising agents in baking powder, and to hold water in processed meats and cheese.
  • Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.

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.
  • Whey Whey is the liquid left over from cheese making, usually dried into a powder and used as a cheap source of milk solids, protein and lactose.
  • Fructose Fructose is the sugar found naturally in fruit and honey, but as an ingredient it is refined industrially, mostly from corn starch.
5 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.

  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
  • Vegetable fat Vegetable fats are oils that are solid at room temperature, such as palm or coconut fat.
  • 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 24 chocolate-covered biscuits

From least to most processed, this one ranks 19th. 96% of the chocolate-covered biscuits 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 24 chocolate-covered biscuits, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 4061459717044, last edited 26 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.
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.