Is Green & black's organic chocolate bar 70% dark ultra-processed?

35 g Dark chocolate bar with more than 70% cocoa Sold in the United Kingdom, the United States and France

It's processed, but not ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Whole foods combined with:

Sugar
Vegetable fat

12 ingredients
No additives
Nutri-Score E

Less processed sweet snacks

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

Cocoa mass #, raw cane sugar # (processing marker), cocoa butter # (processing marker), vanilla extract #, # =, chocolate (MINIMUM COCOA SOLIDS 70%Cocoa), Sugar (processing marker), Vanilla (traded in compliance with Fairtrade Standards), total 100%, Visit www.info.fairtrade.netFairtrade means fairer trading conditions and opportunities for producers in developing countries to invest in their businesses and communities for a sustainable future

As written on the pack

Cocoa mass #, raw cane sugar #, cocoa butter #, vanilla extract #. # = Certified Organic. ORGANIC CHOCOLATE: MINIMUM COCOA SOLIDS 70%Cocoa, Sugar, Vanilla: traded in compliance with Fairtrade Standards, total 100%. Visit www.info.fairtrade.netFairtrade means fairer trading conditions and opportunities for producers in developing countries to invest in their businesses and communities for a sustainable future. MAY CONTAIN NUTS, MILK.

What makes it processed

Culinary ingredients

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.
Vegetable fat Vegetable fats are oils that are solid at room temperature, such as palm or coconut fat.

Category rules

Open Food Facts puts every product in this category in at least this group.

Chocolates Products in the category "Chocolates" are at least group 3.
Sweet snacks Products in the category "Sweet snacks" are at least group 3.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 29 dark chocolate bar with more than 70% cocoa

From least to most processed, this one ranks 15th. 45% of the dark chocolate bar with more than 70% cocoa 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 29 dark chocolate bar with more than 70% cocoa, least processed first

About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5011835103823, last edited 17 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.