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Is milk chocolate peanut ultra-processed?

Chocolate covered peanuts Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of milk chocolate peanut

Yes, it's ultra-processed

  1. 1 Unprocessed
  2. 2 Kitchen staple
  3. 3 Processed
  4. 4 Ultra-processed

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

  • 19 ingredients
  • 3 additives
  • Nutri-Score E

Less processed chocolate covered nuts

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

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Milk Chocolate 58% (Sugar, Cocoa Butter, Skimmed M Powder, Cocoa Mass, Whey Powder Milk, Lactose Milk, Milk Fat, Emulsifier (Soya Lecithins), Natural Flavouring), Oil Roasted Peanuts 41% (Peanuts, Rapeseed Oil), Glazing Agents (Acacia Gum), Glucose Syrup, Polydextrose, Osconut Oil

Additives: E1200 Polydextrose , E322 Lecithins , E414 Acacia gum

As written on the pack

58% Milk Chocolate (Sugar, Cocoa Butter, Skimmed M Powder, Cocoa Mass**, Whey Powder Milk, Lactose Milk, Milk Fat (Milk), Emulsifier: Soya Lecithins; Natural Flavouring), 41% Oil Roasted Peanuts (Peanuts, Rapeseed Oil), Glazing Agents: Acacia Gum; Glucose Syrup, Polydextrose, Osconut Oil

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.
  • E414 Acacia gum Gum arabic (acacia gum) is the hardened sap of acacia trees, used to stabilise flavour emulsions in soft drinks and to coat sweets.
  • 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.
  • Glazing agent Glazing agents, waxes and shellac for example, coat a surface to make it shiny or stop pieces sticking together.

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.

  • Glucose Glucose, usually listed as glucose syrup, is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
  • Glucose syrup Glucose syrup is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
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.

  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
  • Sweet snacks Products in the category "Sweet snacks" are at least group 3.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 10 chocolate covered peanuts

From least to most processed, this one ranks 3rd. 90% of the chocolate covered peanuts 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.

All 10 chocolate covered peanuts, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 20952525, 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.