Is Belmont Takeaway Milk Chocolate ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- 21 ingredients
- 3 additives
- Nutri-Score E
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Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
milk chocolate 45% (sugar (processing marker), cocoa butter (processing marker), cocoa paste, skimmed milk powder (processing marker), lactose (ultra-processing marker), anhydrous milk fat, lecithins (ultra-processing marker), natural vanilla flavouring (ultra-processing marker)), wheat flour, sugar (processing marker), palm fat, concentrated butter, glucose-fructose syrup (ultra-processing marker), skimmed milk powder (processing marker), sodium carbonates, diphosphates (ultra-processing marker), salt (processing marker), find out more at ra, org, nutr typic wwwwwwww enerc fat of wh carbe of wh fibre prote salt wwwwwwww best
Additives: E322 Lecithins , E450 Diphosphates , E500 Sodium carbonates
As written on the pack
milk chocolate (45%) (sugar, cocoa butter*, cocoa paste*, skimmed milk powder, lactose (milk), anhydrous milk fat, emulsifier: lecithins (soya), natural vanilla flavouring), wheat flour, sugar, palm fat, concentrated butter (milk), glucose-fructose syrup, skimmed milk powder, raising agents: sodium carbonates, diphosphates, salt, *rainforest alliance certified, find out more at ra,org, allergy advice: for allergens, see ingredients in bold, may also contain nuts and egg, nutr typic wwwwwwww enerc fat of wh carbe of wh fibre prote salt wwwwwwww best
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.
- 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.
- Lactose Lactose is milk sugar, crystallised industrially from whey, a by-product of cheese making.
- 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.
Among 301 chocolate biscuits
From least to most processed, this one ranks 159th. 95% of the chocolate biscuits here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 4088600362441, last edited 1 May 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.