Is Marks & Spencer peanut & choc chip ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- 10 ingredients
- 2 additives
- Nutri-Score D
Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
Date Paste, Roasted Peanuts 15%, Dark Chocolate Chips 11% (Cocoa Fat Reduced Cocoa Powder Vanilla Flavouring Emulsifier (Soya Lecithin (ultra-processing marker))), Peanut Butter 7%, Chicory Fibre (ultra-processing marker), Fat Reduced Cocoa Powder, peanut flour, sea salt (processing marker)
Additives: E322 Lecithins , E322i Lecithin
As written on the pack
Date Paste ; Nibbed Roasted Peanuts 15%; Dark Chocolate Chips (11%) (Cocoa Fat Reduced Cocoa Powder Vanilla Flavouring Emulsifier: Soya Lecithin); Peanut Butter (7%) ; Chicory Fibre ; Fat Reduced Cocoa Powder ; Partially Defatted peanut flour ; sea salt
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.
- Vegetable fiber Isolated plant fibres, such as inulin, oat fibre or bamboo fibre, are extracted industrially and added to change texture or support "source of fibre" claims.
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.
- Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 29217120, 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 D (from A, best, to E).
- General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.