Is Edward Marc Thin Mints ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- 42 ingredients
- 4 additives
- Nutri-Score E
Less processed confectioneries
Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
sugar (processing marker), palm kernel oil, whole milk powder (processing marker), whey powder (ultra-processing marker), palm oil, soy lecithin (ultra-processing marker), an emulsifier (ultra-processing marker), natural flavor (ultra-processing marker), confectioner's glaze, chocolate liquor, cocoa butter, chocolate, cocoa powder, peppermint oil, pure vanilla, chocolate cookie, flour, wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, vitamins, vitamin B1, riboflavin, vitamins, vitamin B2, folic acid, sugar (processing marker), cocoa processed with alkali, palm oil, high fructose corn syrup (ultra-processing marker), corn flour, chocolate liquor, cocoa, sodium bicarbonate, salt (processing marker), soy lecithin (ultra-processing marker), color added (ultra-processing marker), turmeric, spirulina extract, beet juice concentrate, peppermint oil
Additives: E322 Lecithins , E322i Lecithin , E500 Sodium carbonates , E500ii Sodium hydrogen carbonate
As written on the pack
sugar, palm kernel oil, whole milk powder, whey powder, palm oil, soy lecithin, an emulsifier, natural flavor, confectioner's glaze, chocolate liquor, cocoa butter, chocolate, cocoa powder, peppermint oil, pure vanilla, chocolate cookie, enriched flour, wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, vitamin B1, riboflavin, vitamin B2, folic acid, sugar, cocoa processed with alkali, palm oil, high fructose corn syrup, corn flour, chocolate liquor, cocoa, sodium bicarbonate, salt, soy lecithin, color added, turmeric, spirulina extract, beet juice concentrate, peppermint oil
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.
- Colour Colours are added to restore colour lost in processing or to make a product look more appealing.
- Emulsifier Emulsifiers keep fat and water from separating, giving products a smooth, stable texture over a long shelf life.
- 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.
- High fructose corn syrup High-fructose corn syrup is made from corn starch: enzymes break it down to glucose and convert part of that into fructose, giving a syrup about as sweet as table sugar.
- Whey Whey is the liquid left over from cheese making, usually dried into a powder and used as a cheap source of milk solids, protein and lactose.
- Fructose Fructose is the sugar found naturally in fruit and honey, but as an ingredient it is refined industrially, mostly from corn starch.
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.
- 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 1,731 confectioneries
From least to most processed, this one ranks 1272nd. 90% of the confectioneries here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0813085603185, last edited 4 May 2025), 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.