Is Belsoy Dessert Dark Chocolate ultra-processed?

4 x 125 g Vegan creamy puddings Sold in Canada and France

Yes, it's ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

Flavouring
Thickener
Modified starch
E407 Carrageenan

18 ingredients
3 additives
Nutri-Score E

Less processed non-dairy desserts

Almond Dairy-Free Plant-Based Yogurt, Plain, CAN Silk 10 ingredients · 6 additives NOVA group 3
So Soja! Natural Sojade 4 ingredients · no additives NOVA group 1
Plant Chef Soya Alternative To Plain Yogurt Tesco 8 ingredients · no additives NOVA group 1
Plain Soya - Yogurt Alternative Asda 9 ingredients · no additives NOVA group 1

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

Soya base (water, hulled soya beans), sugar (processing marker), cocoa, modified tapioca starch (ultra-processing marker), chocolate (cocoa powder, cocoa mass, sugar (processing marker)), tri-calcium phosphate, artificial flavouring (ultra-processing marker), carrageenan (ultra-processing marker) (thickener (ultra-processing marker)), sea salt (processing marker), vitamins, vitamin B2, vitamin D2

Additives: E341 Calcium phosphates , E341iii Tricalcium phosphate , E407 Carrageenan

As written on the pack

Soya base (water, hulled soya beans), sugar, cocoa*, modified tapioca starch, chocolate (cocoa powder*, cocoa mass*, sugar), tri-calcium phosphate, artificial flavouring, carrageenan (thickener), sea salt, vitamins (B2, D2). Dairy free, gluten free, peanut free.

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.

E407 Carrageenan Carrageenan is a thickener and gelling agent extracted from red seaweed, used widely in dairy desserts, plant-based drinks and processed meats.
Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.
Thickener Thickeners, often gums or modified starches, make liquids more viscous so that a product feels richer than its ingredients alone would make it.
Modified starch Modified starch is starch altered physically, with enzymes or chemically, so that it thickens, gels or survives freezing and heating better than ordinary starch.

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.

Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.
Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 8 vegan creamy puddings

From least to most processed, this one ranks 4th. 100% of the vegan creamy puddings 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 8 vegan creamy puddings, least processed first

About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0674491111776, last edited 10 September 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.