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Is Foxs Indulgent Centre Cookies, Triple Chocolate ultra-processed?

Biscuits Sold in the United Kingdom

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:

  • 54 ingredients
  • 10 additives

Less processed biscuits

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

Chocolate Filling 26% (Sugar, Vegetable Fats, Rapeseed, Reduced Fat Cocoa Powder, Skimmed Milk Powder, Cocoa Mass, Cocoa Butter, Emulsifiers (Lecithins), Soy Lecithin, Flavouring), Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Sugar, Palm Oil, White Chocolate 5% (Sugar, Whole Milk Powder, Cocoa Butter, Skimmed Milk Powder, Emulsifiers (Lecithins), Soy Lecithin, Flavouring), Partially Inverted Sugar Syrup, Desiccated Coconut, Alkalised Cocoa Powder 2% (Cocoa Powder, Acidity Regulator (Potassium Carbonate), Oatmeal, Glucose Syrup, Dark Chocolate Chips 1%, Sugar, Cocoa Mass, Cocoa Butter, Emulsifiers (Lecithins), Soy Lecithin, Flavouring), Molasses, Raising Agents (Ammonium Bicarbonates), Sodium Bicarbonates, Disodium Diphosphates, Cornflour, Salt, Flavouring, White Chocolate contains Cocoa Solids 20%

Additives: E322 Lecithins , E322i Lecithin , E450 Diphosphates , E450i Disodium diphosphate , E500 Sodium carbonates , E500ii Sodium hydrogen carbonate , E501 Potassium carbonates , E501i Potassium carbonate , E503 Ammonium carbonates , E503ii Ammonium hydrogen carbonate

As written on the pack

Chocolate Filling (26%) [Sugar, Vegetable Fats: Sunflower Oil, Rapeseed; Reduced Fat Cocoa Powder, Skimmed Milk Powder, Cocoa Mass, Cocoa Butter, Emulsifiers: Lecithins, Soy Lecithin; Flavouring], Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Sugar, Palm Oil, White Chocolate Chips (5%) [Sugar, Whole Milk Powder, Cocoa Butter, Skimmed Milk Powder, Emulsifiers: Lecithins, Soy Lecithin; Flavouring], Partially Inverted Sugar Syrup, Desiccated Coconut, Alkalised Cocoa Powder (2%) [Cocoa Powder, Acidity Regulator: Potassium Carbonate), Oatmeal, Glucose Syrup, Dark Chocolate Chips (1%) [Sugar, Cocoa Mass, Cocoa Butter, Emulsifiers: Lecithins, Soy Lecithin; Flavouring], Molasses, Raising Agents: Ammonium Bicarbonates, Sodium Bicarbonates, Disodium Diphosphates; Cornflour, Salt, Flavouring. White Chocolate contains Cocoa Solids 20% 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.
  • E450 Diphosphates Diphosphates are phosphate salts used as raising agents in baking powder, and to hold water in processed meats and cheese.
  • 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.
  • Glucose syrup Glucose syrup is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
  • Invert sugar Invert sugar is ordinary sugar split into glucose and fructose with acid or enzymes.
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.

  • 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.
  • 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 1,514 biscuits

From least to most processed, this one ranks 1312th. 83% of the 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 1,514 biscuits, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5010035069403, last edited 18 April 2026), available under the Open Database License. If something is wrong or the recipe has changed, you can correct it there.
  • 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.