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Is Sainsbury's Taste The Difference Chocolate Hazelnut Creme ultra-processed?

Chocolate spreads Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Sainsbury's Taste The Difference Chocolate Hazelnut Creme

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:

  • 11 ingredients
  • 1 additive

Less processed chocolate spreads

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

Hazelnuts 35%, Sugar, Rapeseed Oil, Lactose (Cows' Milk), Fat Reduced Cocoa Powder 5%, Cocoa Butter, Emulsifier (Lecithins), Salt, carbohydrate 6.6g sugars 6.5g protein 0.9g salt

Additives: E322 Lecithins

As written on the pack

Hazelnuts (35%), Sugar, Rapeseed Oil, Lactose (Cows' Milk), Fat Reduced Cocoa Powder (5%), Cocoa Butter*, Emulsifier: Lecithins; Salt. carbohydrate 6.6g sugars 6.5g protein 0.9g salt 0.02g Suitable for Vegetarians. Allergy advice:

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.

  • Lactose Lactose is milk sugar, crystallised industrially from whey, a by-product of cheese making.
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 78 chocolate spreads

From least to most processed, this one ranks 44th. 94% of the chocolate spreads 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 78 chocolate spreads, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5063334020446, last edited 5 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.
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.