Is Bennetto Dark Salted Caramel chocolate bar ultra-processed?

80g Dark chocolate bar Sold in the United Kingdom and Germany

It's processed, but not ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Whole foods combined with:

Salt
Sugar

9 ingredients
No additives

Less processed sweet snacks

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 (processing marker), caramel almond brittle 15% (cane sugar" (processing marker), almond paste 2.4%, almonds 2.1%), cocoa butter, sea salt (processing marker) 0.7%, vanilla beans

As written on the pack

Cocoa mass*, cane sugar, caramel almond brittle (15%) (cane sugar", almond paste 2.4%, almonds 2.1%*), cocoa butter*, sea salt (0.7%), vanilla beans*. MAY CONTAIN MILK, HAZELNUTS AND SOY. *Certified Organic.

What makes it processed

Culinary ingredients

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.

Category rules

Open Food Facts puts every product in this category in at least this group.

Chocolates Products in the category "Chocolates" are at least group 3.
Sweet snacks Products in the category "Sweet snacks" are at least group 3.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 56 dark chocolate bar

From least to most processed, this one ranks 23rd. 55% of the dark chocolate bar 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 56 dark chocolate bar, least processed first

About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 9421903370655, 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.