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Is Garant A touch of milk, hasselnöt & havssalt ultra-processed?

100 g Dark chocolates with hazelnuts Sold in Sweden and Aland Islands

Pack of Garant A touch of milk, hasselnöt & havssalt

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:

  • 12 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score E

Less processed dark chocolates with hazelnuts

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

Socker, kakaomassa, kakaosmör, karamelliserade hackade hasselnötter 12% (hasselnötter, socker, invertsockersirap), mjölkpulver, vasslepulver, hasselnötspasta, havssalt 0.1%, vaniljextrakt

As written on the pack

Socker, kakaomassa, kakaosmör, karamelliserade hackade hasselnötter 12% (hasselnötter, socker, invertsockersirap), mjölkpulver, vasslepulver (mjölk), hasselnötspasta, havssalt 0.1%, vaniljextrakt.

What makes it ultra-processed

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.
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.
  • 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.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 12 dark chocolates with hazelnuts

From least to most processed, this one ranks 7th. 83% of the dark chocolates with hazelnuts 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 12 dark chocolates with hazelnuts, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 7340083464249, last edited 2 April 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.