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Is Nestlé Dark chocolate covered pretzels with peppermint pieces, peppermint ultra-processed?

21g Crackers (Appetizers) Sold in the United Kingdom, the United States and 3 more countries

Pack of Nestlé Dark chocolate covered pretzels with peppermint pieces, peppermint

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 crackers (Appetizers)

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

Dark chocolate coating (sugar, chocolate liquor processed with alkali, cocoa butter, butterfat, soy lecithin, and vanilla), pretzels (enriched wheat flour (flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate-b1, riboflavin-b2, folic acid), malt, salt, soybean, canola oil, and yeast), peppermint (sugar, corn syrup, vegetable juice, caramel color, natural peppermint oil)

Additives: E150c Ammonia caramel , E322 Lecithins , E322i Lecithin

Also detected, but not matched to one ingredient: E150c Ammonia caramel.

As written on the pack

Dark chocolate coating (sugar, chocolate liquor processed with alkali, cocoa butter, butterfat [milk], soy lecithin, and vanilla), pretzels (unbleached enriched wheat flour [flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate-b1, riboflavin-b2, folic acid], malt, salt, soybean and/or canola oil, and yeast), peppermint flakes (sugar, corn syrup, vegetable juice concentrate, caramel color, natural peppermint oil).

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.

  • E150c Ammonia caramel Ammonia caramel is a brown colour made by heating sugars with ammonia compounds.
  • 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.

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.
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.

  • Salty snacks Products in the category "Salty snacks" are at least group 3.
  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • 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.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 715 crackers (Appetizers)

From least to most processed, this one ranks 532nd. 61% of the crackers (Appetizers) 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 715 crackers (Appetizers), least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 11117780, last edited 30 June 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.