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Is Monty Bojangles Truffle Selection ultra-processed?

Chocolate truffles Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Monty Bojangles Truffle Selection

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:

  • 26 ingredients
  • 3 additives
  • Nutri-Score E

Less processed chocolate truffles

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

vegetable oils (coconut, rspo mb palm kernel), sugar, fat reduced cocoa powder, whey powder (from milk), butterscotch chips 2% (sugar, glucose syrup, cream, skimmed milk powder, salted butter (butter, salt), sea salt), popping candy 2% (sugar, lactose, cocoa butter, glucose syrup, carbon dioxide), cocoa powder, emulsifier (soya lecithin), natural flavouring

Additives: E290 Carbon dioxide , E322 Lecithins , E322i Lecithin

As written on the pack

VEGETABLE OILS (COCONUT, RSPO MB PALM KERNEL), SUGAR, FAT REDUCED COCOA POWDER, WHEY POWDER (FROM MILK), BUTTERSCOTCH CHIPS (2%) (SUGAR, GLUCOSE SYRUP, CREAM [MILK], SKIMMED MILK POWDER, SALTED BUTTER (BUTTER [MILK], SALT), SEA SALT), POPPING CANDY (2%) (SUGAR, LACTOSE [MILK], COCOA BUTTER, GLUCOSE SYRUP, CARBON DIOXIDE), COCOA POWDER, EMULSIFIER (SOYA LECITHIN), NATURAL FLAVOURING.

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.

  • E290 Carbon dioxide Preservatives are substances which prolong the shelf-life of foods by protecting them against deterioration caused by micro-organisms and/or which protect against growth of pathogenic micro-organisms.
  • 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.
  • 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.

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.
  • Lactose Lactose is milk sugar, crystallised industrially from whey, a by-product of cheese making.
  • 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.
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 oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.
  • 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 13 chocolate truffles

From least to most processed, this one ranks 12th. 85% of the chocolate truffles 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 13 chocolate truffles, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5060413263190, 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.