Is Lily's Milk Chocolate Style Baking Chips ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- 9 ingredients
- 3 additives
Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
cocoa, erythritol (ultra-processing marker), inulin (ultra-processing marker), milk, cocoa butter, milk fat, sunflower lecithin (ultra-processing marker), stevia extract, natural flavor (ultra-processing marker)
Additives: E322 Lecithins , E322i Lecithin , E968 Erythritol
As written on the pack
Unsweetened cocoa, erythritol*, inulin, milk (rbst free), cocoa butter, milk fat (rbst free), sunflower lecithin, stevia extract, natural flavor.
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.
- E968 Erythritol Humectants are substances which prevent foods from drying out by counteracting the effect of an atmosphere having a low degree of humidity, or promote the dissolution of a powder in an aqueous medium.
- 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.
- Vegetable fiber Isolated plant fibres, such as inulin, oat fibre or bamboo fibre, are extracted industrially and added to change texture or support "source of fibre" claims.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0856481003906, last edited 25 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.
- General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.