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Is Lindt Excellence Milk Sea Salt Caramel ultra-processed?

100 g e Milk chocolate with caramel Sold in the United Kingdom, Australia and France

Pack of Lindt Excellence Milk Sea Salt Caramel

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:

  • 16 ingredients
  • 2 additives
  • Nutri-Score E

Less processed milk chocolates

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

sugar, cocoa butter, caramel 15% (sugar, lactose, concentrated dairy butter, skim milk powder, rapeseed lecithin), milk powder, cocoa paste, lactose condensed milk butter, skim milk powder extracted from barley malt, salt flower 0.3%, lecithin, aroma, cocoa 30%

Additives: E322 Lecithins , E322i Lecithin

As written on the pack

sugar, cocoa butter, caramel seeds (sugar, lactose, concentrated dairy butter, skim milk powder, emulsifier (rapeseed lecithin)) 15%, milk powder, cocoa paste, lactose condensed milk butter, skim milk powder extracted from barley malt, salt flower 0,3%, emulsifier (lecithin), aroma, may contain sesame seeds and nuts, cocoa: 30% minimum ,

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.
  • 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.

  • Lactose Lactose is milk sugar, crystallised industrially from whey, a by-product of cheese making.
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.

  • Chocolates Products in the category "Chocolates" are at least group 3.
  • 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 9 milk chocolate with caramel

From least to most processed, this one ranks 2nd. 100% of the milk chocolate with caramel 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 9 milk chocolate with caramel, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 3046920010382, last edited 14 March 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.