Is Marks & Spencer Belgian milk chocolate florentines ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- 18 ingredients
- 2 additives
- Nutri-Score E
Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
Milk Chocolate 37% (Sugar Cocoa Butter, Dried Whole Milk Cocoa Mass, Emulsifier (ultra-processing marker) (Soya Lecithin Sunflower Lecithin, Vanilla Flavouring (ultra-processing marker))), Almonds 23%, Sugar Butter, Whipping Cream, Sultanas 4%, Invert Sugar Syrup (ultra-processing marker), Glucose Syrup Candied Orange 2.5%, Lemon Peel 2.5% (Orange Peel Glucose-Fructose Syrup, Sugar (processing marker), Lemon Peel), Rice Flour Salt Emulsifier (Soya Lecithin (ultra-processing marker))
Additives: E322 Lecithins , E322i Lecithin
As written on the pack
Milk Chocolate (37%) (Sugar Cocoa Butter - Dried Whole Milk Cocoa Mass. Emulsifier: Soya Lecithin Sunflower Lecithin. Vanilla Flavouring). Almonds (23%) Sugar Butter (Milk) Whipping Cream (Milk) Sultanas (4%) Invert Sugar Syrup. Glucose Syrup Candied Orange and Lemon Peel (2.5%) (Orange Peel Glucose-Fructose Syrup. Sugar - Lemon Peel) - Rice Flour Salt Emulsifier: Soya Lecithin.
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.
- Invert sugar Invert sugar is ordinary sugar split into glucose and fructose with acid or enzymes.
1 ingredient that would only make it processed
Kitchen staples like sugar, salt and oil. On their own they make a food processed, not ultra-processed.
- Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 29178919, last edited 27 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.