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Is Pret Love Bar ultra-processed?

Chocolate candies Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Pret Love Bar

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:

  • 38 ingredients
  • 5 additives
  • Nutri-Score E

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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

Oats 29%, Caramel 26% (Sugar, Glucose Syrup, Palm Oil, Sweetened Condensed Milk (Whole Milk, Sugar), Rapeseed Oil, Water, Salt, Flavouring, Colours (Curcumin), Annatto Bixin, Emulsifier (Soya Lecithin)), Salted Butter (Butter, Salt), Partially Inverted Refiners Syrup, Dark Chocolate Chunks 4.5% (Cocoa Mass, Sugar, Emulsifier (Soya Lecithin), Vanilla Extract), Light Brown Sugar, Pistachio Nuts 2.5%, Almonds 2.5%, Vanilla Flavoured Pumpkin Seeds 2.5% (Pumpkin Seeds, Icing Sugar, Caster Sugar, Vanilla Extract), Honey, Dark Chocolate contains (Cocoa solids)

Additives: E100 Curcumin , E160b Annatto , E160bi Annatto bixin , E322 Lecithins , E322i Lecithin

As written on the pack

Oats (29%), Caramel (26%) (Sugar, Glucose Syrup, Palm Oil, Sweetened Condensed Milk (Whole Milk, Sugar), Rapeseed Oil, Water, Salt, Flavouring, Colours: Curcumin, Annatto Bixin; Emulsifier: Soya Lecithin), Salted Butter (Butter (Milk), Salt), Partially Inverted Refiners Syrup, Dark Chocolate Chunks (4.5%) (Cocoa Mass, Sugar, Emulsifier: Soya Lecithin; Vanilla Extract), Light Brown Sugar, Pistachio Nuts (2.5%), Almonds (2.5%), Vanilla Flavoured Pumpkin Seeds (2.5%) (Pumpkin Seeds, Icing Sugar, Caster Sugar, Vanilla Extract), Honey. Dark Chocolate contains: Cocoa solids 48% minimum.

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.

  • E100 Curcumin Colours are substances which add or restore colour in a food, and include natural constituents of foods and natural sources which are normally not consumed as foods as such and not normally used as characteristic ingredients of food.
  • E160b Annatto Colours are substances which add or restore colour in a food, and include natural constituents of foods and natural sources which are normally not consumed as foods as such and not normally used as characteristic ingredients of 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.
  • Colour Colours are added to restore colour lost in processing or to make a product look more appealing.
  • 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.

  • 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.
5 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.
  • Honey Honey, used as a sweetener.
  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
  • Sweet snacks Products in the category "Sweet snacks" are at least group 3.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 773 chocolate candies

From least to most processed, this one ranks 661st. 91% of the chocolate candies 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 773 chocolate candies, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5065002532374, 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.