Is Nestlé Aero Hot Chocolate ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- 13 ingredients
- 3 additives
- Nutri-Score E
Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
Fat Reduced Drinking Chocolate 45%, Sugar (processing marker), Fat-Reduced Cocoa Powder 25%, Glucose Syrup (ultra-processing marker), Skimmed Milk Powder (processing marker), Coconut Oil (processing marker), Sugar (processing marker), Lactose (ultra-processing marker), Natural Flavouring Acidity Regulator (e340), e466 (ultra-processing marker), e415 (ultra-processing marker), Salt (processing marker)
Additives: E340 Potassium phosphates , E415 Xanthan gum , E466 Sodium carboxy methyl cellulose
As written on the pack
Fat Reduced Drinking Chocolate (45%) [Sugar, Fat-Reduced Cocoa Powder (25%), Glucose Syrup, Skimmed Milk Powder, Coconut Oil, Sugar, Lactose, Natural Flavouring Acidity Regulator (E340), Thickeners (E466, E415), 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.
- E415 Xanthan gum Xanthan gum is a thickener made by fermenting sugar with the bacterium Xanthomonas campestris.
- E466 Sodium carboxy methyl cellulose Carboxymethyl cellulose is a thickener made by chemically modifying cellulose from wood or cotton.
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.
4 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.
- 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.
- Milk powder Milk powder is milk with the water evaporated off: a preserved form of a whole food rather than an industrial extract.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 7613031508808, last edited 19 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.