Is Montezuma's Eco Egg milk chocolate hollow egg organic ultra-processed?
It's processed, but not ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Whole foods combined with:
- 6 ingredients
- No additives
- Nutri-Score E
Less processed sweet snacks
Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
milk chocolate (cane sugar (processing marker), cocoa butter, milk powder (processing marker), cocoa paste, vanilla extract)
As written on the pack
Organic milk chocolate (organic cane sugar, organic cocoa butter, organic milk powder, organic cocoa paste, organic vanilla extract)
What makes it processed
Processed ingredients
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.
Culinary ingredients
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.
Category rules
Open Food Facts puts every product in this category in at least this group.
- Chocolates Products in the category "Chocolates" are at least group 3.
- Sweet snacks Products in the category "Sweet snacks" are at least group 3.
Among 10 chocolate molds
From least to most processed, this one ranks 1st. 80% of the chocolate molds here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5060719926096, last edited 14 April 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.