Is Marks & Spencer Dark milk chocolate with blood orange ultra-processed?

100g Dark chocolate bar Sold in the United Kingdom

It's processed, but not ultra-processed

Whole foods combined with:

Less processed isn't automatically healthier, so compare the labels for what matters to you, such as sugar or salt.

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Cocoa Mass, Cane Sugar (processing marker), Cocoa Butter, Dried Whole Milk (processing marker), Italian Blood Orange Oil, Vanilla Extract

As written on the pack

Cocoa Mass, Cane Sugar, Cocoa Butter, Dried Whole Milk, Italian Blood Orange Oil, Vanilla Extract

Processed foods in their own right, such as cheese or milk powder.

Milk powder Milk powder is milk with the water evaporated off: a preserved form of a whole food rather than an industrial extract.

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

Open Food Facts puts every product in this category in at least this group.

From least to most processed, this one ranks 14th. 55% of the dark chocolate bar 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.

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 29398003, last edited 25 May 2026), available under the Open Database License. If something is wrong or the recipe has changed, you can correct it there.
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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.