Is Divine Milk chocolate ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- 9 ingredients
- 2 additives
- Nutri-Score E
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Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
Sugar (processing marker), cocoa butter (processing marker), cream, cocoa mass, whole milk powder (processing marker), sunflower lecithin (ultra-processing marker), vanilla, Cotoa solids 26%, Milk 22%
Additives: E322 Lecithins , E322i Lecithin
As written on the pack
Sugar, cocoa butter, dried cream (milk), cocoa mass, whole milk powder, emulsifier: sunflower lecithin, vanilla. Cotoa solids 26% minimum. Milk solids 22% minimum.
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.
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.
- Chocolates Products in the category "Chocolates" are at least group 3.
- 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.
- Milk powder Milk powder is milk with the water evaporated off: a preserved form of a whole food rather than an industrial extract.
Among 279 milk chocolates
From least to most processed, this one ranks 40th. 93% of the milk chocolates here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5017397077107, last edited 25 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.
- 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.