Is Le Chic Patissier Stroopwafels ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- 20 ingredients
- 5 additives
- Nutri-Score E
Less processed stuffed wafers
Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
Glucose-fructose syrup (ultra-processing marker), wheat flour, vegetable fat (processing marker) (palm), sugar (processing marker), whey powder (ultra-processing marker), rapeseed oil, wheat starch (processing marker), soy flour, raising agent (sodium carbonates), salt (processing marker), emulsifiers (ultra-processing marker) (soy lecithin (ultra-processing marker)), mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids (ultra-processing marker), skimmed milk powder (processing marker), eggs, acidity regulator (citric acid), cinnamon
Additives: E322 Lecithins , E322i Lecithin , E330 Citric acid , E471 Mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids , E500 Sodium carbonates
As written on the pack
Glucose-fructose syrup, wheat flour, vegetable fat (palm), sugar, whey powder, rapeseed oil, wheat starch, soy flour, raising agent: sodium carbonates, salt, emulsifiers: soy lecithin, mono - and diglycerides of fatty acids, skimmed milk powder, eggs, acidity regulator: citric acid, cinnamon.
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.
- E471 Mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids Mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids are made from fats and glycerol.
- Emulsifier Emulsifiers keep fat and water from separating, giving products a smooth, stable texture over a long shelf life.
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.
- Whey Whey is the liquid left over from cheese making, usually dried into a powder and used as a cheap source of milk solids, protein and lactose.
- Fructose Fructose is the sugar found naturally in fruit and honey, but as an ingredient it is refined industrially, mostly from corn starch.
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.
- 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.
- 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.
Among 39 stuffed wafers
From least to most processed, this one ranks 30th. 90% of the stuffed wafers here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0040232665103, last edited 2 May 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.