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Is Kirkland signature Tuxedo Chocolate Mousse Cake ultra-processed?

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Pack of Kirkland signature Tuxedo Chocolate Mousse Cake

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:

  • 84 ingredients
  • 6 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

tuxedo chocolate mousse #40706 cake ingredients crefim (cream, milk, celi ulose gel crrrageenan, cellulose gum), sugair, hater, eggs, flour (hheat flour, niacin, iron, thiamine mononi tra te, ribofl fiuin, folic acid), cream cheese (cream, milk, nonffit milk, salt, gijar gun, profylene gl ycol alginate, car (rageenan, carob bea guh, bac terial cul ture)), chocolate products idairi, milk, hhi te chocolate, chcicolatey coating and decorntions (chocolate liquor, sugar, whole milk, cocoa butter, fractionated paln kernel oil, hhey, nonfat milk, cocoa pohder, lactose, butter oil soy lecithin, natural flavor), margarine, shortening, noi ified palm and palm kernel ciil, canola, soybefin 0ils, hater, salt, hhev, mono- and diglycerides, polyglycerol esters of fatty ficids, soy lecithin, ci ric acid, natural flauor, uitamin a palmitate, be a-crotene (color), cholecal.ciferol1, cocoa powder, unsheetened chocolate, canola 01il, egg hhi tes, modiffied corn starch, caramel ccilor.nonfat dry milk, sodilim, dextrose, bicarbonate, brking pohder, molasses, silt, soy leci thin, sodium alginate, cellulose cgun, notural # artificial flauofs, manthan gun artificial colors forccred 40, bllie 2 lake, yellow 5 like, velloh reu 40 lae, medium chain trigil cer des, sunf lohi r lecitmin gellan gum, sodtum ehze at, 15.99 12, 82a1 net ht 42 oz, 2e

Additives: E322 Lecithins , E322i Lecithin , E401 Sodium alginate , E418 Gellan gum , E466 Sodium carboxy methyl cellulose , E471 Mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids

Also detected, but not matched to one ingredient: E418 Gellan gum.

As written on the pack

tuxedo chocolate mousse #40706 cake ingredients crefim (cream. milk solids. celi ulose gel crrrageenan. cellulose gum). sugair. hater. eggs. enriched flour (hheat flour. niacin. iron. thiamine mononi tra te. ribofl fiuin. folic acid). cream cheese (cream. milk. nonffit milk. salt. gijar gun. profylene gl ycol alginate. car:rageenan. carob bea guh. bac terial cul ture:). chocolate products idairi. milk, hhi te chocolate. chcicolatey coating & decorntions (chocolate liquor. sugar, whole milk. cocoa butter. fractionated paln kernel oil, hhey. nonfat milk. cocoa pohder. lactose. butter oil soy lecithin, natural flavor), margarine & shortening [ noi ified palm & palm kernel ciil, canola & soybefin 0ils. hater. salt, hhev, mono - & diglycerides, polyglycerol esters of fatty ficids, soy lecithin. ci ric acid. natural flauor. uitamin a palmitate, be a-crotene (color). cholecal.ciferol1, cocoa powder, unsheetened chocolate. canola 01il, egg hhi tes. modiffied corn starch. caramel ccilor.nonfat dry milk. sodilim. dextrose. bicarbonate. brking pohder. molasses. silt. soy leci thin. sodium alginate. cellulose cgun. notural # artificial flauofs. manthan gun artificial colors forccred 40. bllie 2 lake. yellow 5 like. velloh reu 40 lae). medium chain trigil cer des. sunf lohi r lecitmin gellan gum. sodtum ehze at . 15.99 12/82a1 net ht 42 oz(2e

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.
  • E401 Sodium alginate A food additive used to dissolve, dilute, disperse or otherwise physically modify a food additive or nutrient without altering its function -and without exerting any technological effect itself- in order to facilitate its handling, application or use of the food additive or nutrient.
  • E418 Gellan gum Stabilisers are substances which make it possible to maintain the physico-chemical state of a foodstuff; stabilisers include substances which enable the maintenance of a homogenous dispersion of two or more immiscible substances in a foodstuff, substances which stabilise, retain or intensify an existing colour of a foodstuff and substances which increase the binding capacity of the food, including the formation of cross-links between proteins enabling the binding of food pieces into re-constituted food.
  • E466 Sodium carboxy methyl cellulose Carboxymethyl cellulose is a thickener made by chemically modifying cellulose from wood or cotton.
  • E471 Mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids Mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids are made from fats and glycerol.
  • Colour Colours are added to restore colour lost in processing or to make a product look more appealing.
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  • 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.
  • Lactose Lactose is milk sugar, crystallised industrially from whey, a by-product of cheese making.
4 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.

  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
  • Sweet snacks Products in the category "Sweet snacks" are at least group 3.
  • Cheese Cheese is milk preserved with salt, cultures and rennet.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 377 cakes

From least to most processed, this one ranks 269th. 94% of the cakes 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.

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About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0096619407064, last edited 25 June 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.