Is Blue Diamond Thin Dipped Almonds Double Dark Chocolate ultra-processed?

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Yes, it's ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

Cocoa powder
Cocoa paste
E322 Lecithins

10 ingredients
2 additives
Nutri-Score D

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

almonds, dark chocolate (sugar (processing marker), chocolate liquor (ultra-processing marker), cocoa butter, milk fat, soy lecithin (ultra-processing marker), vanilla), cocoa powder (ultra-processing marker), sea salt (processing marker)

Additives: E322 Lecithins , E322i Lecithin

As written on the pack

ALMONDS, DARK CHOCOLATE (SUGAR, CHOCOLATE LIQUOR (PROCESSED WITH ALKALI), COCOA BUTTER, MILK FAT, SOY LECITHIN, VANILLA), COCOA POWDER (PROCESSED WITH ALKALI), SEA 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.

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.

Cocoa powder An ingredient mostly produced industrially and rarely used in home kitchens.
Cocoa paste An ingredient mostly produced industrially and rarely used in home kitchens.

2 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.

How the NOVA groups work

About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0041570149249, last edited 15 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 D (from A, best, to E).
General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.