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Is Bonne Maman La madeleine coeur chocolat ultra-processed?

600 g Chocolate cakes Sold in the United Kingdom and France

Pack of Bonne Maman La madeleine coeur chocolat

Yes, it's ultra-processed

  1. 1 Unprocessed
  2. 2 Kitchen staple
  3. 3 Processed
  4. 4 Ultra-processed

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

  • 29 ingredients
  • 2 additives
  • Nutri-Score E

Less processed chocolate cakes

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

Soft wheat flour, eggs 16%, sugar, invert sugar syrup, butter, rapeseed oil, glycerol, chocolate 5% (sugar, cocoa mass, low-fat cocoa powder, natural vanilla flavour), sweetened condensed milk, cream, hazelnut paste 1.5%, sweet egg yolk, sodium carbonates, citrates (wheat), salt, natural hazelnut flavours, pectins, Keep in a dry place, away from heat (max 25°C), light, This packaging contains 20 portions, Net weight (600ge)

Additives: E422 Glycerol , E440 Pectins

As written on the pack

Soft wheat flour, eggs 16%, sugar, invert sugar syrup, butter, rapeseed oil, stabiliser: glycerol, chocolate 5% (sugar, cocoa mass, low-fat cocoa powder, natural vanilla flavour), sweetened condensed milk, cream, hazelnut paste 1.5%, sweet egg yolk, raising agents: sodium carbonates and citrates (wheat), salt, natural hazelnut flavours, gelling agent: pectins. May contain: nuts, soya. Keep in a dry place, away from heat (max 25°C) and light. Made in France. This packaging contains 20 portions. Net weight: 600ge

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.

  • E422 Glycerol Glycerol is a sweet-tasting liquid used to keep products moist and soft.
  • E440 Pectins Pectins are gelling agents extracted from citrus peel or apple pomace.
  • 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.

  • Invert sugar Invert sugar is ordinary sugar split into glucose and fructose with acid or enzymes.
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.

  • Butter Butter, the fat churned from cream.
  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
  • Sweet snacks Products in the category "Sweet snacks" are at least group 3.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 67 chocolate cakes

From least to most processed, this one ranks 17th. 97% of the chocolate cakes 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 67 chocolate cakes, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 3178530420838, 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.
  • 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.