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Is Milka ultra-processed?

100 g Filled milk chocolates Sold in the United Kingdom, Sweden and 7 more countries

Pack of Milka

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:

  • 22 ingredients
  • 3 additives
  • Nutri-Score E

Less processed milk chocolates

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 50% (sugar, cocoa butter, skimmed milk powder, cocoa mass, whey powder, milk fat, soya lecithin, hazelnut paste, flavouring), strawberry, yoghurt flavoured filling (vegetable fat (palm), sugar, whey powder, soya lecithin, dextrose, strawberry 0.2%, maltodextrin, flavourings, citric acid)

Additives: E322 Lecithins , E322i Lecithin , E330 Citric acid

As written on the pack

Milk chocolate 50% [sugar, cocoa butter, skimmed milk powder, cocoa mass, whey powder (contains milk), milk fat, emulsifier (soya lecithin), hazelnut paste, flavouring], strawberry and yoghurt flavoured filling [vegetable fat (palm), sugar, whey powder (contains milk), emulsifier (soya lecithin), dextrose, strawberry (0.2%), maltodextrin, flavourings, acidity regulator (citric acid)].

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.
  • 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.

  • Dextrose Dextrose is pure glucose crystallised from starch-derived syrup.
  • Glucose Glucose, usually listed as glucose syrup, is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
  • Maltodextrin Maltodextrin is a white powder made by partly breaking down starch.
  • Whey Whey is the liquid left over from cheese making, usually dried into a powder and used as a cheap source of milk solids, protein and lactose.
5 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.

  • Chocolates Products in the category "Chocolates" are at least group 3.
  • 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.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 9 filled milk chocolates

From least to most processed, this one ranks 8th. 100% of the filled milk chocolates 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 9 filled milk chocolates, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 7622210645128, last edited 24 August 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.