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Is Nestlé Aero milk chocolate ultra-processed?

236 g Dairy mousses Sold in the United Kingdom and France

Pack of Nestlé Aero milk chocolate

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
  • 6 additives
  • Nutri-Score C

Less processed dairy desserts

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, sugar, milk chocolate 6.5% (sugar, milk powder, cocoa butter, cocoa mass, whey powder (from milk), sunflower lecithin, flavouring), cocoa powder, caramel (sugar, water, glucose syrup), skimmed milk powder, beef gelatine, lactic acid esters of mono- and di glycerides of fatty acids, reduced fat cocoa powder, carrageenan, sodium alginate

Additives: E322 Lecithins , E322i Lecithin , E401 Sodium alginate , E407 Carrageenan , E428 Gelatine , E570 Fatty acids

As written on the pack

milk , sugar, milk chocolate 6,5% (sugar, milk powder, cocoa butter, cocoa mass, whey powder (from milk ), emulsifier (sunflower lecithin), flavouring), cocoa powder, caramel (sugar, water, glucose syrup), skimmed milk powder, beef gelatine, emulsifier (lactic acid esters of mono and di glycerides of fatty acids), reduced fat cocoa powder, gelling agents (carrageenan, sodium alginate),

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.
  • E401 Sodium alginate A food additive used to dissolve, dilute, disperse or otherwise physically modify a food additive or nutrient without altering its function -and without exerting any technological effect itself- in order to facilitate its handling, application or use of the food additive or nutrient.
  • E407 Carrageenan Carrageenan is a thickener and gelling agent extracted from red seaweed, used widely in dairy desserts, plant-based drinks and processed meats.
  • E428 Gelatine Gelatine is a gelling agent made from collagen in animal skin and bones.
  • 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.
  • 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.
3 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.
  • Vegetable fat Vegetable fats are oils that are solid at room temperature, such as palm or coconut fat.
  • 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 10 dairy mousses

From least to most processed, this one ranks 8th. 100% of the dairy mousses 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 dairy mousses, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 3023290624012, last edited 10 July 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 C (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.