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Is Christie Caramilk Chewy Chips Ahoy! ultra-processed?

453 g Chocolate biscuits Sold in Canada

Pack of Christie Caramilk Chewy Chips Ahoy!

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:

  • 39 ingredients
  • 11 additives
  • Nutri-Score E

Less processed chocolate biscuits

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

Wheat flour, Sugars (glucose-fructose, sugar, golden sugar, dextrose), Palm, modified palm oils, Semi-sweet chocolate chips (sugar, unsweetemed chocolate, cocoa butter, milk ingredients, palm kernel oil, chocolate, hydrogenated palm oil, natural flavour, soy lecithin, sea salt, cocoa, paprika extract), Confectionary drops (sugar, palm kernel oil, palm oil, milk ingredients, dextrose, soy lecithin, salt, artificial flavour, sunset yellow FCF, tartrazine, indigotine), Corn starch, Baking soda, Salt, Ammonium bicarbonate, Artificial flavour, Caramel colour

Additives: E102 Tartrazine , E110 Sunset yellow FCF , E132 Indigotine , E150c Ammonia caramel , E160c Paprika extract , E322 Lecithins , E322i Lecithin , E500 Sodium carbonates , E500ii Sodium hydrogen carbonate , E503 Ammonium carbonates , E503ii Ammonium hydrogen carbonate

Also detected, but not matched to one ingredient: E150c Ammonia caramel.

As written on the pack

Wheat flour, Sugars (glucose-fructose, sugar and/or golden sugar, dextrose), Palm and/or modified palm oils, Semi-sweet chocolate chips (sugar, unsweetemed chocolate, cocoa butter, milk ingredients, palm kernel oil, unsweetened chocolate, hydrogenated palm oil, natural flavour, soy lecithin, sea salt, cocoa, paprika extract), Confectionary drops (sugar, palm kernel oil and palm oil, modified milk ingredients, dextrose, soy lecithin, salt, artificial flavour, sunset yellow FCF, tartrazine, indigotine), Corn starch, Baking soda, Salt, Ammonium bicarbonate, Artificial flavour, Caramel colour

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.

  • E102 Tartrazine Tartrazine is a synthetic yellow azo dye (FD&C Yellow No. 5 in the US).
  • E110 Sunset yellow FCF Sunset yellow FCF is a synthetic orange azo dye (FD&C Yellow No. 6 in the US).
  • E132 Indigotine Colours are substances which add or restore colour in a food, and include natural constituents of foods and natural sources which are normally not consumed as foods as such and not normally used as characteristic ingredients of food.
  • E150c Ammonia caramel Ammonia caramel is a brown colour made by heating sugars with ammonia compounds.
  • E160c Paprika extract Paprika extract is a red-orange colour extracted from paprika peppers.
  • 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.
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  • 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.
  • Hydrogenated oil Hydrogenation turns liquid oil into a solid fat that resists going rancid.
  • Fructose Fructose is the sugar found naturally in fruit and honey, but as an ingredient it is refined industrially, mostly from corn starch.
  • Milk An ingredient mostly produced industrially and rarely used in home kitchens.
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 301 chocolate biscuits

From least to most processed, this one ranks 294th. 95% of the 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 301 chocolate biscuits, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0066721026392, last edited 21 April 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.