Is Planet Oat dark chocolate ultra-processed?

Cocoa oat-based drinks Sold in the United States

Yes, it's ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

Flavouring
E170 Calcium carbonates
E418 Gellan gum

16 ingredients
5 additives
Nutri-Score D

Less processed oat-based drinks

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

Oatmilk (filtered water, oats), cane sugar (processing marker), cocoa processed with alkali, calcium carbonate (ultra-processing marker), dipotassium phosphate (stabilizer), natural flavors (ultra-processing marker), sea salt (processing marker), gellan gum (ultra-processing marker), vitamin a palmitate, vitamins, vitamin d2, riboflavin, vitamin b12

Additives: E170 Calcium carbonates , E170i Calcium carbonate , E340 Potassium phosphates , E340ii Dipotassium phosphate , E418 Gellan gum

As written on the pack

Oatmilk (filtered water, oats), cane sugar, cocoa processed with alkali, calcium carbonate, dipotassium phosphate (stabilizer), natural flavors, sea salt, gellan gum, vitamin a palmitate, vitamin d2, riboflavin (vitamin b2) and vitamin b12.

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.
E418 Gellan gum Stabilisers are substances which make it possible to maintain the physico-chemical state of a foodstuff; stabilisers include substances which enable the maintenance of a homogenous dispersion of two or more immiscible substances in a foodstuff, substances which stabilise, retain or intensify an existing colour of a foodstuff and substances which increase the binding capacity of the food, including the formation of cross-links between proteins enabling the binding of food pieces into re-constituted food.
Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.

2 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.
Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 8 cocoa oat-based drinks

From least to most processed, this one ranks 6th. 100% of the cocoa oat-based drinks 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 8 cocoa oat-based drinks, least processed first

About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0044100156205, last edited 13 August 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.