Is Island Bakery Chocolate Gingers ultra-processed?

133 g Dark chocolate biscuits Sold in the United Kingdom and Belgium

It's processed, but not ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Whole foods combined with:

Butter
Salt
Sugar

22 ingredients
2 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

WHEAT Flour (WHEAT Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Dark Chocolate 26% (Cocoa Mass, Sugar (processing marker), Cocoa Butter, Vanilla Powder), Stem Ginger 16% (Ginger, Sugar (processing marker)), Sugar (processing marker), Butter (processing marker), Root Ginger 1.5%, Sea Salt (processing marker), Raising Agent (Ammonium Carbonate, Chocolate contains), Cocoa Solids 50%

Additives: E503 Ammonium carbonates , E503i Ammonium carbonate

As written on the pack

WHEAT Flour (WHEAT Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron*, Niacin, Thiamin*), Dark Chocolate 26% (Cocoa Mass, Sugar, Cocoa Butter, Vanilla Powder), Stem Ginger 16% (Ginger, Sugar), Sugar, Butter (MILK), Root Ginger 1.5%, Sea Salt, Raising Agent*: Ammonium Carbonate. Chocolate contains: Cocoa Solids 50% min.

What makes it processed

Culinary ingredients

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.
Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

Category rules

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

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

How the NOVA groups work

Among 14 dark chocolate biscuits

From least to most processed, this one ranks 2nd. 86% of the dark chocolate biscuits 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 14 dark chocolate biscuits, least processed first

About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5060027070115, last edited 3 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.