Is Nestlé Lion White Duo ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- 22 ingredients
- 4 additives
- Nutri-Score E
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Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
glucose-fructose syrup (ultra-processing marker), vegetable fats palm, shea (processing marker), palm kernel, sugar (processing marker), wheat flour, sweetened condensed milk (milk, sugarl, skimmed milk powder (processing marker), whey powder from milk), maltodextrin (ultra-processing marker), wheat starch (processing marker), salt (processing marker), sunflower lecithin (ultra-processing marker), natural flavourings (ultra-processing marker), sodium bicarbonate, caramelised sugar (processing marker), thickener carageenant, atlergy advice! for allergens, including cereals containing gluten, best before end
Additives: E322 Lecithins , E322i Lecithin , E500 Sodium carbonates , E500ii Sodium hydrogen carbonate
As written on the pack
glucose-fructose syrup, vegetable fats palm, shea, palm kernel), sugar, wheat flour, sweetened condensed milk (milk, sugarl, skimmed milk powder, whey powder from milk), maltodextrin, wheat starch, salt, emulsifier (sunflower lecithin), natural flavourings, raising agent (sodium bicarbonate), caramelised sugar, thickener carageenant, atlergy advice! for allergens, including cereals containing gluten, see ingredients in bold, may contain peanuts, tree nuts and soya, 2* 3 best before end
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.
- 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.
- Maltodextrin Maltodextrin is a white powder made by partly breaking down starch.
- Fructose Fructose is the sugar found naturally in fruit and honey, but as an ingredient it is refined industrially, mostly from corn starch.
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.
- Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
- Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.
- 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.
- 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.
Among 773 chocolate candies
From least to most processed, this one ranks 490th. 91% of the chocolate candies here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 7613036521208, last edited 2 October 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.