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Is Nestle Milky Bar Chocolate Egg ultra-processed?

White chocolates Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Nestle Milky Bar Chocolate Egg

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:

  • 19 ingredients
  • 1 additive

Less processed white chocolates

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

white chocolate egg, white chocolate contains vegetable fat in addition to cocoa butter ingredients (sugar), skimmed milk powder, cocoa butter, whey powder, milk vegetable fats (mango kernel, palim, sal, shea), butterfat, natural flavouring, emulsifier (lecithins), find out more at ra, org important young children (less than 4 years), have limited chewing ability and could choke on small sweets

Additives: E322 Lecithins

As written on the pack

white chocolate egg, white chocolate contains vegetable fat in addition to cocoa butter ingredients: sugar, skimmed milk powder, cocoa butter, whey powder (milk vegetable fats (mango kernel, palim, sal, shea), butterfat (milk), natural flavouring, emulsifier (lecithins), may contain nuts rainforest alliance certified cocoa, find out more at ra,org important young children (less than 4 years) have limited chewing ability and could choke on small sweets, 72g suitable for vegetarians

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.
  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Chocolates Products in the category "Chocolates" are at least group 3.
  • 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.
  • 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 42 white chocolates

From least to most processed, this one ranks 33rd. 93% of the white chocolates 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 42 white chocolates, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 8445291401242, 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.
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.