Is M&S Food Chocolate Crunch ultra-processed?

500g Cereal clusters with chocolate Sold in the United Kingdom

It's processed, but not ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Whole foods combined with:

Vegetable oil

18 ingredients
1 additive
Nutri-Score A

Less processed chocolate cereals

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

Nut allergy, Oat Flakes 36%, Fructo-oligosaccharides Soya Protein Isolate 11%, Wheat Protein Crisp (Wheat Protein, Wheatflour), Vegetable Oil (processing marker) (Sunflower Vegetable Oil, Rapeseed Vegetable Oil), Barley Flakes, Dark Chocolate 8% (Sugar Cocoa Mass Cocoa Butter Emulsifier (Sunflower Lecithin Flavouring)), Fat Reduced Cocoa Powder, Flavourings Barley Malt Extract, Antioxidant (Tocopherol-rich Extract, 4 4)

Additives: E306 Tocopherol-rich extract

As written on the pack

Nut allergy . Oat Flakes (36%) Fructo-oligosaccharides Soya Protein Isolate (11%). Wheat Protein Crisp (Wheat Protein (contains Gluten) Wheatflour (contains Gluten)) Vegetable Oil (Sunflower/Rapeseed) Barley Flakes (contain Gluten) Dark Chocolate (8%) (Sugar Cocoa Mass Cocoa Butter Emulsifier: Sunflower Lecithin Flavouring) Fat Reduced Cocoa Powder. Flavourings Barley Malt Extract (contains Gluten) Antioxidant: Tocopherol-rich Extract. 4 4

What makes it processed

Culinary ingredients

Kitchen staples like sugar, salt and oil. On their own they make a food processed, not ultra-processed.

Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 14 cereal clusters with chocolate

From least to most processed, this one ranks 2nd. 86% of the cereal clusters with chocolate 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 14 cereal clusters with chocolate, least processed first

About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 29308217, last edited 17 April 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 A (from A, best, to E).
General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.