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Is Brooklea Light choc pots ultra-processed?

320g Chocolate creamy puddings Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Brooklea Light choc pots

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:

  • 24 ingredients
  • 5 additives
  • Nutri-Score C

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

water, skimmed milk, milk chocolate 5.5% (sugar, whole milk powder, cocoa butter, cocoa mass, skimmed milk powder, emulsifier (lecithins, soya), sunflower, salt, flavouring), modified waxy maize starch, reduced fat cocoa powder, sugar, stabilisers (pectin, locust bean gum), flavouring, sweeteners (acesulfame k, aspartame)

Additives: E322 Lecithins , E410 Locust bean gum , E440 Pectins , E950 Acesulfame k , E951 Aspartame

As written on the pack

water, skimmed milk concentrate, milk chocolate 5,5% (sugar, whole milk powder, cocoa butter, cocoa mass, skimmed milk powder, emulsifier lecithins ( soya , sunflower), salt, flavouring), modified waxy maize starch, reduced fat cocoa powder, sugar, stabilisers (pectin, locust bean gum), flavouring, sweeteners (acesulfame k, aspartame),

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.
  • E410 Locust bean gum Locust bean gum (carob gum) is a thickener and stabiliser from the seeds of the carob tree.
  • E440 Pectins Pectins are gelling agents extracted from citrus peel or apple pomace.
  • E950 Acesulfame k Acesulfame K is a synthetic sweetener about 200 times sweeter than sugar, often combined with aspartame or sucralose.
  • E951 Aspartame Aspartame is a synthetic sweetener about 200 times sweeter than sugar, used in diet drinks and sugar-free products.
  • Emulsifier Emulsifiers keep fat and water from separating, giving products a smooth, stable texture over a long shelf life.
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  • Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.
  • Sweetener Sweeteners give sweetness with few or no calories, many at hundreds of times the strength of sugar.
  • Modified starch Modified starch is starch altered physically, with enzymes or chemically, so that it thickens, gels or survives freezing and heating better than ordinary starch.
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 9 chocolate creamy puddings

From least to most processed, this one ranks 5th. 100% of the chocolate creamy puddings 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 9 chocolate creamy puddings, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 4088600464756, 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 C (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.