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Is Brownie Brittle Chocolate Chip ultra-processed?

5 oz Cakes Sold in the United States

Pack of Brownie Brittle Chocolate Chip

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:

  • 33 ingredients
  • 4 additives
  • Nutri-Score E

Less processed 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

brownie brittle mix (enriched wheat flour (flour, niacin, iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), powdered sugar, sugar, palm oil, corn syrup solids, cocoa processed with alkali, soybean oil, cornstarch, egg whites, leavening (baking soda), natural flavor, nonfat milk, salt, soy lecithin), confectionary chocolate chips (sugar, sustainable hydrogenated vegetable oil (palm kernel, palm oil), cocoa processed with alkali, dextrose, cocoa powder, whey powder, soy lecithin, vanilla)

Additives: E322 Lecithins , E322i Lecithin , E500 Sodium carbonates , E500ii Sodium hydrogen carbonate

As written on the pack

brownie brittle mix (enriched wheat flour bleached (flour, niacin, iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), powdered sugar, sugar, palm oil, corn syrup solids, cocoa processed with alkali, soybean oil, cornstarch. egg whites, leavening (baking soda), natural flavor, nonfat milk, salt, soy lecithin), confectionary chocolate chips (sugar, sustainable hydrogenated vegetable oil (palm kernel, palm oil), cocoa processed with alkali, dextrose, cocoa powder, whey powder, soy lecithin, vanilla)

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.
  • 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.

  • Dextrose Dextrose is pure glucose crystallised from starch-derived syrup.
  • Glucose Glucose, usually listed as glucose syrup, is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
  • 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.
5 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.
  • Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.
  • Sweet snacks Products in the category "Sweet snacks" are at least group 3.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 377 cakes

From least to most processed, this one ranks 149th. 94% of the 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 377 cakes, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0711747012248, last edited 26 June 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.