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Is Duchy Organic Stem Ginger Biscuits Coated in Dark Chocolate ultra-processed?

100 g Dark chocolate biscuits Sold in the United Kingdom, France and Spain

Pack of Duchy Organic Stem Ginger Biscuits Coated in Dark Chocolate

It's processed, but not ultra-processed

  1. 1 Unprocessed
  2. 2 Kitchen staple
  3. 3 Processed
  4. 4 Ultra-processed

Whole foods combined with:

  • 20 ingredients
  • 2 additives
  • Nutri-Score E

Less processed sweet snacks

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 50% (sugar, cocoa mass, cocoa butter), fortified wheat flour (wheat flour, calcium carbonate, iron, niacin, thiamin), salted butter (butter, salt), sugar, stem ginger 6% (ginger, sugar), ginger powder, sea salt, ammonium hydrogen carbonate

Additives: E503 Ammonium carbonates , E503ii Ammonium hydrogen carbonate

As written on the pack

organic dark chocolate 50% (organic sugar, organic cocoa mass, organic cocoa butter), organic fortified wheat flour (organic wheat flour, calcium carbonate, iron, niacin, thiamin), organic salted butter (butter (milk), salt), organic sugar, organic candied stem ginger 6% (organic ginger, organic sugar), organic ginger powder, sea salt, raising agent (ammonium hydrogen carbonate)

What makes it processed

Culinary ingredients

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.

Category rules

Open Food Facts puts every product in this category in at least this group.

  • 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 1st. 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 5000169149829, last edited 20 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.