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Is Maltesers Bunny ultra-processed?

29 g Milk chocolate biscuits Sold in the United Kingdom and France

Pack of Maltesers Bunny

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:

  • 31 ingredients
  • 5 additives
  • Nutri-Score E

Less processed chocolate biscuits

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

Milk chocolate with a malt filling 31%, honeycombed pieces 5.5%, Ingredients (sugar), skimmed milk powder, palm fat, cocoa butter, barley malt extract, cocoa mass, lactose, protein from whey (from milk), whey powder (from milk), milk fat, full cream milk powder, glucose syrup, demineralised whey (from milk), shea fat, lactose, soya lecithin, wheat flour, e341, e500, e501, salt, wheat gluten, natural vanilla extract, solids 14%, Milk chocolate contains vegetable fats in addition to cocoa butter

Additives: E322 Lecithins , E322i Lecithin , E341 Calcium phosphates , E500 Sodium carbonates , E501 Potassium carbonates

As written on the pack

Milk chocolate with a malt filling (31%) and honeycombed pieces (5.5%). Ingredients: sugar, skimmed milk powder, palm fat, cocoa butter, barley malt extract, cocoa mass, lactose and protein from whey (from milk), whey powder (from milk), milk fat, full cream milk powder, glucose syrup, demineralised whey powder (from milk), shea fat, lactose, emulsifier (soya lecithin), wheat flour, raising agents (E341, E500, E501), salt, wheat gluten, natural vanilla extract. (May contain: egg). Milk chocolate contains milk solids 14% minimum. Milk chocolate contains vegetable fats in addition to cocoa butter. Suitable for Vegetarians

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.

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.
  • Glucose syrup Glucose syrup is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
  • Gluten Wheat gluten, sold as "vital wheat gluten", is the protein washed out of wheat flour.
  • Lactose Lactose is milk sugar, crystallised industrially from whey, a by-product of cheese making.
  • 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.
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.

  • Chocolates Products in the category "Chocolates" are at least group 3.
  • 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.
  • 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 18 milk chocolate biscuits

From least to most processed, this one ranks 10th. 100% of the milk chocolate biscuits 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 18 milk chocolate biscuits, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5000159416979, last edited 21 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.