Is ICA Cookies Choklad ultra-processed?

150g Drop cookies Sold in Sweden

Yes, it's ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

Colour
Emulsifier
Flavouring
Glucose
Glucose syrup
Fructose
and 2 more

33 ingredients
3 additives
Nutri-Score E

Less processed drop cookies

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

Mörk choklad 29% (socker (processing marker), kakaomassa, kakaosmör, glukossirap (ultra-processing marker), emulgeringsmedel (ultra-processing marker) (sojalecitin)), vetemjöl, socker (processing marker), olja (palm, solros), mjölkchoklad 11% (socker (processing marker), helmjölkspulver (processing marker), kakaosmör, kakaomassa, skummjölkspulver (processing marker), emulgeringsmedel (ultra-processing marker) (sojalecitin), arom (ultra-processing marker)), smör (processing marker), ägg, glukos-fruktossirap (ultra-processing marker), skummjölkspulver (processing marker), vetestärkelse (processing marker), bakpulver (e450 (ultra-processing marker), e500), färgämne (ultra-processing marker) (e150a (ultra-processing marker)), äggvitepulver, arom (ultra-processing marker)

Additives: E150a Plain caramel , E450 Diphosphates , E500 Sodium carbonates

As written on the pack

Mörk choklad 29% (socker, kakaomassa, kakaosmör, glukossirap, emulgeringsmedel (sojalecitin)), vetemjöl, socker, vegetabilisk olja (palm, solros), mjölkchoklad 11 % (socker, helmjölkspulver, kakaosmör, kakaomassa, skummjölkspulver, emulgeringsmedel (sojalecitin), arom), smör (mjölk), ägg, glukos-fruktossirap, skummjölkspulver, vetestärkelse, bakpulver (E450, E500), färgämne (E150a), äggvitepulver, arom.

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.

E150a Plain caramel Plain caramel is a brown colour made by heating sugars.
E450 Diphosphates Diphosphates are phosphate salts used as raising agents in baking powder, and to hold water in processed meats and cheese.
Colour Colours are added to restore colour lost in processing or to make a product look more appealing.
Emulsifier Emulsifiers keep fat and water from separating, giving products a smooth, stable texture over a long shelf life.
Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.

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.
Fructose Fructose is the sugar found naturally in fruit and honey, but as an ingredient it is refined industrially, mostly from corn starch.

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.

Butter Butter, the fat churned from cream.
Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.
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.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 64 drop cookies

From least to most processed, this one ranks 46th. 94% of the drop cookies 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 64 drop cookies, least processed first

About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 7318690105596, last edited 2 April 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.