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Is Hotel chocolat Smooth praline bar with pops of creamy biscuit and tart cherry ultra-processed?

Filled chocolates Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Hotel chocolat Smooth praline bar with pops of creamy biscuit and tart cherry

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:

  • 40 ingredients
  • 2 additives
  • Nutri-Score E

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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 solids (cocoa mass, cocoa butter), NUT paste, HAZELNUT paste 8%, cashew nut paste 7% (cashew nuts, rapeseed oil), hazelnut paste 4% (hazelnuts, sugar, sunflower lecithin), sugar, cherries 12% (cherries, sugar, sunflower oil), malt balls 6% (WHEAT flour, sugar, WHEAT malt flour, WHEAT starch, malt extract (from BARLEY), skimmed MILK powder, salt), full cream MILK powder, whole MILK powder, vegetable fats (coconut, shea, sunflower), butter oil (from MILK), skimmed MILK powder, sunflower lecithin, SOYA lecithin, lactose (from MILK), sea salt

Additives: E322 Lecithins , E322i Lecithin

As written on the pack

Cocoa solids (cocoa mass, cocoa butter), NUT paste (HAZELNUT paste (8%), cashew nut paste (7%) (CASHEW NUTS, rapeseed oil), sweetened hazelnut paste (4%) (HAZELNUTS, sugar, emulsifier (sunflower lecithin)), sugar, dried cherries (12%) (cherries, sugar, sunflower oil), malt balls (6%) (WHEAT flour, sugar, WHEAT malt flour, WHEAT starch, malt extract (from BARLEY), skimmed MILK powder, salt), full cream MILK powder, whole MILK powder, vegetable fats (coconut, shea, sunflower), butter oil (from MILK), skimmed MILK powder, emulsifiers (sunflower lecithin, SOYA lecithin), lactose (from MILK), sea salt.

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.

  • Lactose Lactose is milk sugar, crystallised industrially from whey, a by-product of cheese making.
8 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.
  • Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.
  • 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.
  • Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.
  • 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 36 filled chocolates

From least to most processed, this one ranks 6th. 92% of the filled chocolates 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 36 filled chocolates, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5055365698664, last edited 5 September 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.