Is Cocnut Skinny Whips ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- 34 ingredients
- 4 additives
- Nutri-Score E
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Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
Glucose Syrup (ultra-processing marker), Dark Chocolate Flavoured Coating 27% (Sugar (processing marker), Vegetable Fat (processing marker) (Palm Kernel, Palm, Shea), Fat Reduced Cocoa Powder, Lecithin (ultra-processing marker), Natural Vanilla Flavouring (ultra-processing marker)), Polydextrose, Water, Crisped Cereal (Rice Flour, Enriched Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Niacin, Iron, Thiamin), Sugar (processing marker), Malted Barley Flour, Salt (processing marker), Rapeseed Oil), Desiccated Coconut 4%, Egg Albumen, Natural Flavouring (ultra-processing marker), Cellulose (ultra-processing marker), including cereals containing gluten, High in fibre, Store in a cool, dry and dark place, Best Before End (see top of pack)
Additives: E1200 Polydextrose , E322 Lecithins , E322i Lecithin , E460 Cellulose
As written on the pack
Glucose Syrup, Dark Chocolate Flavoured Coating (27%) [Sugar, Vegetable Fat (Palm Kernel, Palm, Shea) in varying proportions, Fat Reduced Cocoa Powder, Emulsifier (Lecithin), Natural Vanilla Flavouring], Bulking Agent (Polydextrose), Water, Crisped Cereal [Rice Flour, Enriched Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Niacin, Iron, Thiamin), Sugar, Malted Barley Flour, Salt, Rapeseed Oil], Desiccated Coconut (4%), Egg Albumen, Natural Flavouring, Stabiliser (Cellulose). For allergens, including cereals containing gluten, see ingredients in bold. May contain traces of milk, soya, nuts and peanuts. High in fibre. Suitable for vegetarians. Store in a cool, dry and dark place. Best Before End: see top of pack.
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.
- E460 Cellulose A food additive used to dissolve, dilute, disperse or otherwise physically modify a food additive or nutrient without altering its function -and without exerting any technological effect itself- in order to facilitate its handling, application or use of the food additive or nutrient.
- 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.
- Glucose Glucose, usually listed as glucose syrup, is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
- Glucose syrup Glucose syrup is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
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.
- 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.
Among 773 chocolate candies
From least to most processed, this one ranks 495th. 91% of the chocolate candies here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5056315501249, last edited 12 September 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.