Is Green and Black's Black's Organic Tasting Collection Boxed Chocolates ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- 31 ingredients
- 1 additive
- Nutri-Score E
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Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
cocoa mass #, cane sugar # (processing marker), cocoa butter #, whole milk powder # (processing marker), fat-reduced cocoa powder #, hazelnuts (stem ginger #, icing sugar # (processing marker)), currants #, glucose syrup # (ultra-processing marker), butter # (processing marker), emulsifier (ultra-processing marker) (soya lecithins # (ultra-processing marker)), palm oil #, vanilla extract #, molasses # (processing marker), #, chocolate (minimum cocoa solids 85%), chocolate (minimum cocoa solids 70%), milk chocolate (minimum cocoa solids 37%), minimum milk 24%, white chocolate (almonds #), crystallised ginger # roasted sea salt, vanilla pod #, minimum chocolate 60% (cocoa solids minimum cocoa solids 30%), milk 26%
Additives: E322 Lecithins
As written on the pack
cocoa mass #, cane sugar #, cocoa butter #, whole milk powder #, fat-reduced cocoa powder #, chopped roasted hazelnuts (stem ginger #, icing sugar #), currants #, glucose syrup #, butter #, emulsifier (soya lecithins #), palm oil #, vanilla extract #, molasses #, anglesey may contain other nuts, # , certified organic, organic chocolate: minimum cocoa solids 85 %, organic chocolate: minimum cocoa solids 70 %, organic organic milk chocolate: minimum cocoa solids 37 %, minimum milk solids 24%, organic white chocolate: almonds #, crystallised ginger # roasted sea salt, vanilla pod #, minimum chocolate: cocoa solids minimum cocoa solids 30%, minimum 60 %, milk solids 26 %,
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.
- Emulsifier Emulsifiers keep fat and water from separating, giving products a smooth, stable texture over a long shelf life.
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.
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.
- Butter Butter, the fat churned from cream.
- 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 776 chocolate candies
From least to most processed, this one ranks 356th. 91% of the chocolate candies here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 7622210761231, 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.