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Is Breyers Extra Creamy Chocolate Frozen Dairy Dessert ultra-processed?

Frozen desserts Sold in the United States

Pack of Breyers Extra Creamy Chocolate Frozen Dairy Dessert

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:

  • 14 ingredients
  • 1 additive
  • Nutri-Score D

Less processed frozen 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

Milk, sugar, corn syrup, cream, dutched cocoa, less than 2% of (whey), vegetable gums (carob bean, guar, tara), mono- and diglycerides, vitamin a palmitate, natural flavor

Additives: E471 Mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids

As written on the pack

Milk, sugar, corn syrup, cream, dutched cocoa (processed with alkali), less than 2% of: whey, vegetable gums (carob bean, guar, tara), mono and diglycerides, vitamin a palmitate, natural flavor.

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.

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.

  • Whey Whey is the liquid left over from cheese making, usually dried into a powder and used as a cheap source of milk solids, protein and lactose.
  • Dutched cocoa An ingredient mostly produced industrially and rarely used in home kitchens.
1 ingredient that would only make it processed

Kitchen staples like sugar, salt and oil. On their own they make a food processed, not ultra-processed.

  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 485 frozen desserts

From least to most processed, this one ranks 126th. 91% of the frozen 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 485 frozen desserts, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0077567250056, last edited 30 September 2025), 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.