Is Nick's crunchy caramel ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- 24 ingredients
- 6 additives
- Nutri-Score D
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Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
sweetener (ultra-processing marker) (erythritol (ultra-processing marker)), polydextrose (fibre), milk chocolate 45% (sweetener (ultra-processing marker) (maltitol (ultra-processing marker)), milk powder (processing marker), cocoa butter (processing marker), butter (processing marker), vegetable oil (processing marker) (coconut, illipe (processing marker), shea (processing marker)), cocoa mass, natural flavouring (ultra-processing marker), sweetener (ultra-processing marker) (steviol glycosides (ultra-processing marker))), almonds 20%, soluble corn fibre (ultra-processing marker), emulsifier (ultra-processing marker) (sunflower lecithin (ultra-processing marker)), natural flavouring (ultra-processing marker), salt (processing marker)
Additives: E1200 Polydextrose , E322 Lecithins , E322i Lecithin , E960 Steviol glycosides , E965 Maltitol , E968 Erythritol
As written on the pack
sweetener (erythritol), polydextrose (fibre), milk chocolate (45%) (sweetener (maltitol), milk powder, cocoa butter, butter (milk), vegetable oil (coconut, illipe, shea), cocoa mass, natural flavouring, sweetener (steviol glycosides)), almonds (20%), soluble corn fibre, emulsifier (sunflower lecithin), natural flavouring, salt
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.
- E960 Steviol glycosides Steviol glycosides are sweet compounds extracted and purified from the leaves of the stevia plant.
- E965 Maltitol Maltitol is a sugar alcohol made from starch, used as a sweetener in "no added sugar" sweets and chocolate.
- E968 Erythritol Humectants are substances which prevent foods from drying out by counteracting the effect of an atmosphere having a low degree of humidity, or promote the dissolution of a powder in an aqueous medium.
- 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.
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- Sweetener Sweeteners give sweetness with few or no calories, many at hundreds of times the strength of sugar.
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.
- Vegetable fiber Isolated plant fibres, such as inulin, oat fibre or bamboo fibre, are extracted industrially and added to change texture or support "source of fibre" claims.
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.
- Butter Butter, the fat churned from cream.
- Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
- 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.
Among 773 chocolate candies
From least to most processed, this one ranks 643rd. 91% of the chocolate candies here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 7350104401108, last edited 16 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 D (from A, best, to E).
- General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.