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Is Pots&Co 70% Chocolate Ganache ultra-processed?

4 x 50 g Chocolate desserts Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Pots&Co 70% Chocolate Ganache

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:

  • 23 ingredients
  • 2 additives
  • Nutri-Score E

Less processed desserts

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

whipping cream, whole milk, cocoa colombian dark chocolate 70% (cocoa mass, sugar, cocoa butter, emulsifier (soya lecithin), vanilla extract), cocoa colombian dark chocolate 61% (cocoa mass, sugar, cocoa butter, emulsifier (soya lecithin), vanilla extract), unsalted butter, glucose syrup, sugar, invert sugar syrup, cornish sea salt, please see ingredients in bold, made in a kitchen that handles nuts

Additives: E322 Lecithins , E322i Lecithin

As written on the pack

whipping cream (milk) (32%), whole milk, 70% cocoa colombian dark chocolate (14%) [cocoa mass, sugar, cocoa butter, emulsifier: soya lecithin, vanilla extract], 61% cocoa colombian dark chocolate (13%) [cocoa mass, sugar, cocoa butter, emulsifier: soya lecithin, vanilla extract], unsalted butter (milk), glucose syrup, sugar, invert sugar syrup, cornish sea salt. for allergens, please see ingredients in bold. made in a kitchen that handles nuts.

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.

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.
  • Glucose syrup Glucose syrup is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
  • Invert sugar Invert sugar is ordinary sugar split into glucose and fructose with acid or enzymes.
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.

  • Butter Butter, the fat churned from cream.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 63 chocolate desserts

From least to most processed, this one ranks 23rd. 98% of the chocolate desserts 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 63 chocolate desserts, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5060253700527, 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.
  • 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.