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Is Celebration • 🇨🇦 Leclerc Butter Cookies Dark Chocolate ultra-processed?

16 biscuits, 240 g Dark chocolate biscuits Sold in the United States, Canada and France

Pack of Celebration • 🇨🇦 Leclerc Butter Cookies Dark Chocolate

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:

  • 22 ingredients
  • 4 additives
  • Nutri-Score E

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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

Dark chocolate 70% Cocoa (chocolate liquor, sugar, cocoa butter, milk ingredients, soya lecithin, vanilla extract), Enriched wheat flour, Sugar, Butter, Sodium bicarbonate, Salt, Soya lecithin, Artificial flavour, _Contains, Soya, Wheat. May contain (Almonds), Cashews, Hazelnuts, Peanuts, Tree nuts._

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

As written on the pack

Dark chocolate 70% Cocoa (chocolate liquor, sugar, cocoa butter, milk ingredients, soya lecithin, vanilla extract), Enriched wheat flour, Sugar, Butter (milk), Sodium bicarbonate, Salt, Soya lecithin, Artificial flavour. Contains: Milk, Soya, Wheat. May contain: Almonds, Cashews, Hazelnuts, Peanuts, Tree nuts.

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.
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.

  • Butter Butter, the fat churned from cream.
  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
  • Vegetable fat Vegetable fats are oils that are solid at room temperature, such as palm or coconut fat.
  • Sweet snacks Products in the category "Sweet snacks" are at least group 3.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 14 dark chocolate biscuits

From least to most processed, this one ranks 4th. 86% of the dark chocolate biscuits 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 14 dark chocolate biscuits, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0064042006734, last edited 29 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.