Is Bonne Maman Dark chocolate crème dessert ultra-processed?

90 g Chocolate desserts Sold in the United Kingdom

Yes, it's ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

Gelling agent
E440 Pectins

14 ingredients
1 additive
Nutri-Score D

Less processed desserts

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

Cream, whole milk, dark chocolate, cocoa mass, cane sugar (processing marker), cocoa butter, sugar (processing marker), fat-reduced cocoa .5g powder, cornflour, skimmed milk powder (processing marker), gelling agent (ultra-processing marker), fruit pectin (ultra-processing marker), tapioca starch (processing marker), sea salt (processing marker)

Additives: E440 Pectins

As written on the pack

Cream (milk) (42%), whole milk, dark chocolate (7%) .7 g [cocoa mass, cane sugar, cocoa butter], sugar, fat-reduced cocoa .5g powder, cornflour, skimmed milk powder, gelling agent - fruit pectin, tapioca starch, 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.

E440 Pectins Pectins are gelling agents extracted from citrus peel or apple pomace.
Gelling agent Gelling agents such as pectin, gelatine or carrageenan set liquids into gels and stabilise textures.

4 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.
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 63 chocolate desserts

From least to most processed, this one ranks 6th. 98% of the chocolate desserts 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 63 chocolate desserts, least processed first

About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 3608580123316, last edited 27 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.
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.