Is Marks & Spencer 4 triple Chocolate Tiffin ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- 24 ingredients
- 6 additives
- Nutri-Score E
Less processed biscuits
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Whole wheat cereal with added vitamins and iron. 12 Biscuits
Weetabix
10 ingredients · no additives
NOVA group
3
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Fruit & Seed Oatcakes
Nairn's
9 ingredients · 2 additives
NOVA group
3
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Shortbread Fingers
Walker’s
9 ingredients · no additives
NOVA group
3
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Cheese Oatcakes
Nairn's
5 ingredients · 2 additives
NOVA group
3
Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
Not Suitable for nut allergy, Milk Chocolate 29% (Sugar Cocoa Butter Cocoa Mass Dried Skimmed Milk Milk Fat, Lactose (ultra-processing marker), Emulsifier (ultra-processing marker) (Soya Lecithin (ultra-processing marker))), Dark Chocolate 23% (Cocoa Mass Sugar Cocoa Butter Emulsifier (Soya Lecithin Natural Vanilla Flavouring)), Wheatflour* Sultanas 11%, Butter (processing marker), White Chocolate (Sugar Cocoa Butter Dried Whole 9.6g Milk Dried Skimmed Milk Emulsifier (Soya Lecithin (ultra-processing marker), Natural Vanilla Flavouring (ultra-processing marker))), Palm Oil Glucose Syrup Sugar Wheatflour Salt Raising Agent (Sodium Bicarbonate), e503ii Rapeseed Oil Partially 0.9g Inverted Sugar Syrup Wheat Gluten, with Calcium, Iron, vitamins, vitamin B3, vitamin B1, Folic Acid
Additives: E322 Lecithins , E322i Lecithin , E500 Sodium carbonates , E500ii Sodium hydrogen carbonate , E503 Ammonium carbonates , E503ii Ammonium hydrogen carbonate
As written on the pack
Not Suitable for nut allergy. Milk Chocolate (29%) (Sugar Cocoa Butter Cocoa Mass Dried Skimmed Milk Milk Fat. Lactose (Milk) Emulsifier: Soya Lecithin) · Dark Chocolate (23%) (Cocoa Mass Sugar Cocoa Butter Emulsifier: Soya Lecithin Natural Vanilla Flavouring) Wheatflour* Sultanas (11%) Butter (Milk). 15.5g White Chocolate (4%) (Sugar Cocoa Butter Dried Whole 9.6g Milk Dried Skimmed Milk Emulsifier: Soya Lecithin. 32.3g 26.0g Natural Vanilla Flavouring) Palm Oil Glucose Syrup Sugar Wholemeal Wheatflour Salt Raising Agent: Sodium Bicarbonate, E503 (ii) Rapeseed Oil Partially 0.9g Inverted Sugar Syrup Wheat Gluten. 2.7g *Fortified with Calcium, Iron, Vitamins B3, B1 and 0.21g Folic Acid.
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.
- Emulsifier Emulsifiers keep fat and water from separating, giving products a smooth, stable texture over a long shelf life.
- 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.
2 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.
- Sweet snacks Products in the category "Sweet snacks" are at least group 3.
Among 1,514 biscuits
From least to most processed, this one ranks 895th. 83% of the biscuits here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 00917117, last edited 26 July 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.