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Is Sainsbury’s 6 Pains Au Chocolat ultra-processed?

Chocolate croissant Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Sainsbury’s 6 Pains Au Chocolat

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:

  • 45 ingredients
  • 5 additives
  • Nutri-Score E

Less processed viennoiseries

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

Wheat Flour, Palm Oil, hocolate 14% (Sugar, Cocoa Mass, Cocoa Butter, Emulsifier (Lecithins), Flavouring), Water, Sugar, Barn Egg, Concentrated Butter (Cows' Milk), Yeast, Skimmed Cows' Milk Powder, Emulsifiers (mono- and Diglycerides of Fatty Acids), Sodium Stearoyl-2-Lactylate, Salt, Flavouring, Wheat Gluten, Carob, Thickener (Locust Bean Gum), Rye Flour, Antioxidant (Ascorbic Acid), Cobur (Carotenes, Chocolate contains), Cocoa Solids 35%, Also, not suitable for customers with an allergy to sesame, soya barley, oat, spelt (wheat), khorasan wheat de to manufacturing methods, Safety (Plastic bas can be dangerous, To avoid danger of suffocation), please keep this bag away from babies and mall children, SUPPORTS SUSTAINABLE The flavourings d colourings used in esced from this produc natural sources The palm oil used in this product om well man PALM OIL Supports the production of sustainable plantations, Together we can protect the world's palm oil from restation

Additives: E300 Ascorbic acid , E322 Lecithins , E410 Locust bean gum , E471 Mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids , E481 Sodium stearoyl-2-lactylate

As written on the pack

Wheat Flour, Palm Oil, hocolate (14%) (Sugar, Cocoa Mass, Cocoa Butter, Emulsifier: Lecithins; Flavouring), Water, Sugar, Pasteurised Barn Egg, Concentrated Butter (Cows' Milk), Yeast, Skimmed Cows' Milk Powder, Emulsifiers: Mono - and Diglycerides of Fatty Acids, Sodium Stearoyl-2-Lactylate; Salt, Flavouring, Wheat Gluten, Carob Powder, Thickener: Locust Bean Gum; Rye Flour, Antioxidant: Ascorbic Acid; Cobur: Carotenes. Chocolate contains: Cocoa Solids 35% minimum. Allergy advice: Forallergens including cereals containing gluten, see ingredients in bold. Also, not suitable for customers with an allergy to sesame, soya barley, oat, spelt (wheat) or khorasan wheat de to manufacturing methods. Safety:Plastic bas can be dangerous. To avoid danger of suffocation, please keep this bag away from babies and mall children. SUPPORTS SUSTAINABLE The flavourings d colourings used in esced from this produc natural sources The palm oil used in this product om well man PALM OIL Supports the production of sustainable plantations. Together we can protect the world's palm oil from restation

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.
  • E410 Locust bean gum Locust bean gum (carob gum) is a thickener and stabiliser from the seeds of the carob tree.
  • E471 Mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids Mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids are made from fats and glycerol.
  • E481 Sodium stearoyl-2-lactylate Emulsifiers are substances which make it possible to form or maintain a homogenous mixture of two or more immiscible phases such as oil and water in a foodstuff.
  • 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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  • Thickener Thickeners, often gums or modified starches, make liquids more viscous so that a product feels richer than its ingredients alone would make it.

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.

  • Gluten Wheat gluten, sold as "vital wheat gluten", is the protein washed out of wheat flour.
4 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.
  • 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 21 chocolate croissant

From least to most processed, this one ranks 17th. 100% of the chocolate croissant 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 21 chocolate croissant, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 00355186, last edited 20 February 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.