Is it ultra-processed?
Menu

Is Nestlé Toffee Crisp ultra-processed?

4 x 31g Candy chocolate bars Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Nestlé Toffee Crisp

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:

  • 31 ingredients
  • 3 additives
  • Nutri-Score E

Less processed candy chocolate bars

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

Toffee 23%, crisped cereal 11%, filled milk chocolate, solids 14% minimum and vegetable fat in addition to cocoa butter, Ingredients (sugar), vegetable fats (palm, coconut, shea, sunflower), glucose fructose syrup, rice flour, sweetened condensed MILK (milk, sugar), whey powder product MILK, cocoa butter, dried whole MILK, cocoa mass, WHEAT flour, fat-reduced cocoa powder, malted BARLEY flour, anti-caking agent (potato starch), emulsifier (lecithins), salt, firming agent (calcium carbonate), flavouring

Additives: E170 Calcium carbonates , E170i Calcium carbonate , E322 Lecithins

As written on the pack

Toffee (23%) and crisped cereal (11%) filled milk chocolate. Milk chocolate contains milk solids 14% minimum and vegetable fat in addition to cocoa butter. Ingredients: sugar, vegetable fats (palm, coconut, shea, sunflower), glucose fructose syrup, rice flour, sweetened condensed MILK (MILK, sugar), whey powder product MILK), cocoa butter, dried whole MILK, cocoa mass, WHEAT flour, fat-reduced cocoa powder, malted BARLEY flour, anti-caking agent (potato starch), emulsifier (lecithins), salt, firming agent (calcium carbonate), flavouring.

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.

  • E170 Calcium carbonates Calcium carbonate is chalk.
  • 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.
  • Firming agent Firming agents keep fruit and vegetable tissue crisp or firm through processing and storage.
  • 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.
  • Fructose Fructose is the sugar found naturally in fruit and honey, but as an ingredient it is refined industrially, mostly from corn starch.
7 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.

  • Anti-caking agent Anti-caking agents are substances which reduce the tendency of individual particles of a foodstuff to adhere to one another.
  • 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.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 201 candy chocolate bars

From least to most processed, this one ranks 154th. 94% of the candy chocolate bars 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 201 candy chocolate bars, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 8445290357687, last edited 13 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.