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Is FinCarrè White Chocolate And Caramelised Biscuit ultra-processed?

200 g White chocolates Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of FinCarrè White Chocolate And Caramelised Biscuit

Yes, it's ultra-processed

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

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

  • 34 ingredients
  • 4 additives
  • Nutri-Score E

Less processed white chocolates

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

Sugar, Cocoa Butter, Whole Milk Powder, Spiced Biscuits 14% (Sugar, Potato Starch, Maize Flour, Palm Fat, Modified Starch, Tapioca Starch, Emulsifier (Soya Lecithins), Spices (Cinnamon, Clove, Nutmeg, Coriander, Allspice, Mace, Ginger, Cardamom), Caramelised Sugar Syrup, Natural Cinnamon Flavouring, Salt, Invert Sugar Syrup, Raising Agents (Sodium Carbonates), Ammonium Carbonates), Cream Powder, Whey Powder, Emulsifier (Sunflower Lecithins), Salt, Natural Vanilla Flavouring

Additives: E14XX Modified Starch , E322 Lecithins , E500 Sodium carbonates , E503 Ammonium carbonates

As written on the pack

Sugar, Cocoa Butter, Whole Milk Powder, 14% Spiced Biscuits (Sugar, Potato Starch, Maize Flour, Palm Fat, Modified Starch, Tapioca Starch, Emulsifier: Soya Lecithins; Spices [Cinnamon, Clove, Nutmeg, Coriander, Allspice, Mace, Ginger, Cardamom], Caramelised Sugar Syrup, Natural Cinnamon Flavouring, Salt, Invert Sugar Syrup, Raising Agents: Sodium Carbonates, Ammonium Carbonates), Cream Powder (Milk), Whey Powder (Milk), Emulsifier: Sunflower Lecithins; Salt, Natural Vanilla Flavouring.

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.

  • E14xx Modified Starch Modified starches (E1400 to E1452) are starches treated physically, with enzymes or chemically so that they thicken and hold up to heating, freezing or acidity better than ordinary starch.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Modified starch Modified starch is starch altered physically, with enzymes or chemically, so that it thickens, gels or survives freezing and heating better than ordinary starch.

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.

  • Invert sugar Invert sugar is ordinary sugar split into glucose and fructose with acid or enzymes.
  • 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.
6 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.
  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.
  • 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.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 42 white chocolates

From least to most processed, this one ranks 39th. 93% of the white chocolates 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 42 white chocolates, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 4056489704287, 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.
  • 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.