Is Marks & Spencers All Butter Double Belgian Chocolate Chunk Cookies ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- 22 ingredients
- 5 additives
- Nutri-Score E
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Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
Dark Chocolate Chunks 22% (Sugar (processing marker), Cocoa Mass, Cocoa Butter (processing marker), Soya Lecithin (ultra-processing marker), Flavouring (ultra-processing marker)), Salted Butter (processing marker) 20% (Butter, Salt (processing marker)), Sugar (processing marker), Milk Chocolate Chunks 11% (Sugar (processing marker), Dried Whole Milk (processing marker), Cocoa Butter (processing marker), Cocoa Mass, Soya Lecithin (ultra-processing marker), Flavouring (ultra-processing marker)), Sodium Bicarbonate, w503, e450 (ultra-processing marker), Flavouring (ultra-processing marker), Salt (processing marker)
Additives: E322 Lecithins , E322i Lecithin , E450 Diphosphates , E500 Sodium carbonates , E500ii Sodium hydrogen carbonate
As written on the pack
Wheatflour contains Gluten (with Wheatflour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin) · Dark Chocolate Chunks (22%) (Sugar · Cocoa Mass · Cocoa Butter · Emulsifier: Soya Lecithin · Flavouring) · Salted Butter (20%) (Butter (Milk) · Salt) · Sugar · Milk Chocolate Chunks (11%) (Sugar · Dried Whole Milk · Cocoa Butter · Cocoa Mass · Emulsifier: Soya Lecithin · Flavouring) · Raising Agent: Sodium Bicarbonate, W503, E450 · Flavouring · 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.
- E450 Diphosphates Diphosphates are phosphate salts used as raising agents in baking powder, and to hold water in processed meats and cheese.
- Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.
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.
- Butter Butter, the fat churned from cream.
- 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.
Among 301 chocolate biscuits
From least to most processed, this one ranks 61st. 95% of the chocolate biscuits here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 00393812, last edited 26 September 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.