Is Costa Millionaires Mocha ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- 22 ingredients
- 2 additives
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Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
sugar (processing marker), drinking chocolate 15% (sugar (processing marker), cocoa), skimmed milk powder (processing marker) 12.8%, fat-reduced cocoa powder 10%, glucose syrup (ultra-processing marker), coconut oil (processing marker), coffee 6% (instant coffee, ground coffee), whole milk powder (processing marker) 5%, belgian chocolate 4% (sugar (processing marker), cocoa mass, fat-reduced cocoa powder, natural vanilla flavouring (ultra-processing marker)), natural flavourings (ultra-processing marker), stabilisers (potassium phosphates, sodium citrates), salt (processing marker)
Additives: E331 Sodium citrates , E340 Potassium phosphates
As written on the pack
sugar, drinking chocolate (15%) (sugar, cocoa), skimmed milk powder (12.8%), fat-reduced cocoa powder (10%), glucose syrup, coconut oil, coffee*(6%) (instant coffee, roasted and ground coffee), whole milk powder (5%), belgian chocolate powder (4%) (sugar, cocoa mass, fat-reduced cocoa powder, natural vanilla flavouring), natural flavourings, stabilisers (potassium phosphates, sodium citrates), salt.
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.
- 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 oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.
- Milk powder Milk powder is milk with the water evaporated off: a preserved form of a whole food rather than an industrial extract.
Among 197 instant beverages
From least to most processed, this one ranks 125th. 57% of the instant beverages here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5039303006438, 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.
- General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.