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Is Great Value Hazelnut Spread With Cocoa ultra-processed?

751g Cocoa and hazelnuts spreads Sold in the United States

Pack of Great Value Hazelnut Spread With Cocoa

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:

  • 15 ingredients
  • 2 additives
  • Nutri-Score E

Less processed cocoa and hazelnuts spreads

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, hazelnuts, modified palm oil, canola oil, cocoa, skim milk, palm oil whey, sunflower, canola lecithin, coconut, macadamia nuts, pine nuts, pistachios, walnuts, wheat

Additives: E322 Lecithins , E322i Lecithin

Also detected, but not matched to one ingredient: E322 Lecithins.

As written on the pack

SUGAR, HAZELNUTS, MODIFIED PALM OIL, CANOLA OIL, COCOA (PROCESSED WITH ALKALI), SKIM MILK, PALM OIL WHEY, SUNFLOWER AND/OR CANOLA LECITHIN, ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR CONTAINS MILK AND HAZELNUTS. MAY CONTAIN TRACES OF ALMONDS, BRAZIL NUTS, CASHEWS, COCONUT, MACADAMIA NUTS, PINE NUTS, PISTACHIOS, WALNUTS AND WHEAT.

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.

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.

  • Cocoa An ingredient mostly produced industrially and rarely used in home kitchens.
1 ingredient that would only make it processed

Kitchen staples like sugar, salt and oil. On their own they make a food processed, not ultra-processed.

  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 55 cocoa and hazelnuts spreads

From least to most processed, this one ranks 27th. 96% of the cocoa and hazelnuts spreads 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 55 cocoa and hazelnuts spreads, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0078742037844, last edited 6 May 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.