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Is Sainsbury's Double Chocolate Cookies ultra-processed?

Chocolate biscuits Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Sainsbury's Double Chocolate Cookies

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:

  • 46 ingredients
  • 5 additives
  • Nutri-Score E

Less processed chocolate biscuits

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

Fortified Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Niacin, Iron, Thiamin), Sugar, Vegetable Margarine (Palm Oil, Rapeseed Oil, Water, Coconut Oil, mono- and Diglycerides of Fatty Acids, Flavouring), Dark Chocolate Chunks 9% (Sugar, Cocoa Mass, Cocoa Butter, Palm Oil, Shea Oil, Mango Kernel Oil, Sal Fat, Soya Lecithin), Milk Chocolate Chunks 8% (Sugar, Cocoa Mass, Cows' Milk, Cocoa Butter, Whey Powder (Cows' Milk), Palm Oil, Shea Oil, Mango Kernel Oil, Sal Fat, Soya Lecithin), Fat Reduced Cocoa Powder 4%, Palm Oil, Water, Rapeseed Oil, Soluble Gluco Fibre, Vegetable Glycerine, Whey Powder (Cows' Milk), Sodium Carbonates, Molasses, Flavouring

Additives: E322 Lecithins , E322i Lecithin , E422 Glycerol , E471 Mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids , E500 Sodium carbonates

As written on the pack

Fortified Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Niacin, Iron, Thiamin), Sugar, Vegetable Margarine (Palm Oil, Rapeseed Oil, Water, Coconut Oil, Emulsifier: Mono - and Diglycerides of Fatty Acids; Flavouring), Dark Chocolate Chunks (9%) (Sugar, Cocoa Mass, Cocoa Butter, Palm Oil, Shea Oil, Mango Kernel Oil, Sal Fat, Emulsifier: Soya Lecithin), Milk Chocolate Chunks (8%) (Sugar, Cocoa Mass, Whole Cows' Milk Powder, Cocoa Butter, Whey Powder (Cows' Milk), Palm Oil, Shea Oil, Mango Kernel Oil, Sal Fat, Emulsifier: Soya Lecithin), Fat Reduced Cocoa Powder (4%), Palm Oil, Water, Rapeseed Oil, Soluble Gluco Fibre, Humectant: Vegetable Glycerine; Whey Powder (Cows' Milk), Raising Agents: Sodium Carbonates; Molasses, Flavouring.

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.
  • E422 Glycerol Glycerol is a sweet-tasting liquid used to keep products moist and soft.
  • E471 Mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids Mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids are made from fats and glycerol.
  • 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.

  • Whey Whey is the liquid left over from cheese making, usually dried into a powder and used as a cheap source of milk solids, protein and lactose.
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.

  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
  • 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.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 301 chocolate biscuits

From least to most processed, this one ranks 136th. 95% of the chocolate biscuits 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 301 chocolate biscuits, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 01066746, last edited 8 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 E (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.