Is Leclerc Celebration 🇨🇦 45% Dk Chocolate, Celebration Butter Cookies ultra-processed?

Net: 240 g Biscuits/Cookies (Shelf Stable) Sold in Canada

Yes, it's ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

Flavouring

18 ingredients
2 additives
Nutri-Score C

Less processed biscuits/Cookies (Shelf Stable)

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

Dark chocolate, Wheat, Sugar (processing marker), Butter (processing marker), e500ii, Salt (processing marker), Lecithine of soya, Flavouring (ultra-processing marker), Artificial, Can contain peanuts, Nut, Sugar (processing marker), Cocoa paste, Cocoa butter (processing marker), Dark chocolate, Dairy, Lecithine of soya, Vanillin

Additives: E500 Sodium carbonates , E500ii Sodium hydrogen carbonate

As written on the pack

Dark chocolate, Wheat, Sugar (origin Canada), Butter, E500ii, Salt, Lecithine of soya, Flavouring, Artificial, Can contain peanuts, Nut, Sugar, Cocoa paste, Cocoa butter, Dark chocolate, Dairy, Lecithine of soya, Vanillin

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.

Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.

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.
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.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 8 biscuits/Cookies (Shelf Stable)

From least to most processed, this one ranks 3rd. 75% of the biscuits/Cookies (Shelf Stable) 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 8 biscuits/Cookies (Shelf Stable), least processed first

About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0064042006529, last edited 29 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 C (from A, best, to E).
General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.