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Is Kinder Pingui ultra-processed?

Chocolate cereal bars Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Kinder Pingui

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:

  • 33 ingredients
  • 1 additive
  • Nutri-Score E

Less processed cereal bars

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

milk 24%, fine chocolate 22% (sugar, cocoa mass, cocoa butter, emulsifier (lecithins), vanillin), sugar, vegetable fat (palm), skimmed MILK powder 9.5%, WHEAT flour, cocoa butter, anhydrous BUTTER, dextrose, fine MILK chocolate 1% (sugar, MILK powder, cocoa butter, cocoa mass, emulsifier (lecithins), vanillin), fat reduced cocoa, EGG powder, baker's yeast, emulsifiers (mono- and diglycerides of latry acids, lecithins), flavourings, salt, BARLEY malt extract

Additives: E322 Lecithins

As written on the pack

Fresh pasteurised MILK (24%), fine chocolate 22% (sugar, cocoa mass, cocoa butter, emulsifier: lecithins (SOYA), vanillin), sugar, vegetable fat (palm), skimmed MILK powder (9.5%), WHEAT flour, cocoa butter, anhydrous BUTTER, dextrose, fine MILK chocolate (1%) (sugar, MILK powder, cocoa butter, cocoa mass, emulsifier: lecithins (SOYA), vanillin), fat reduced cocoa, EGG powder, baker's yeast, emulsifiers (mono and di-glycerides of latry acids, lecithins (SOYA)), flavourings, salt, powdered BARLEY malt extract.

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.
  • 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.

  • Dextrose Dextrose is pure glucose crystallised from starch-derived syrup.
  • Glucose Glucose, usually listed as glucose syrup, is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
6 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.
  • 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.
  • 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 61 chocolate cereal bars

From least to most processed, this one ranks 31st. 100% of the chocolate cereal bars 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 61 chocolate cereal bars, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5020411111732, last edited 30 July 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.