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Is Green & Black's Butterscotch milk chocolate ultra-processed?

Milk chocolate with caramel Sold in the United Kingdom and France

Pack of Green & Black's Butterscotch milk chocolate

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:

  • 10 ingredients
  • 1 additive
  • Nutri-Score E

Less processed milk 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

Cane sugar whole milk powder #, cocoa mass #, cocoa butter #, butterscotch # (cane sugar #glucose syrup #, butter #, palm oil #, molasses #), sova lecithins #, vanilla extract # #=

Additives: E322 Lecithins

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

As written on the pack

Cane sugar whole milk powder #, cocoa mass #, cocoa butter #, butterscotch # (cane sugar #glucose syrup #, butter #, palm oil #, molasses #), emulsifier (sova lecithins #), vanilla extract # #= Certified Organic.

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.
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.
  • 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.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 9 milk chocolate with caramel

From least to most processed, this one ranks 1st. 100% of the milk chocolate with caramel 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 9 milk chocolate with caramel, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 7622210584687, last edited 13 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.