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Is Sainsbury's Triple Chocolate Crisp ultra-processed?

Cereal clusters with chocolate Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Sainsbury's Triple Chocolate Crisp

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
  • 2 additives
  • Nutri-Score D

Less processed cereal clusters with chocolate

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

Oat Flakes 50%, Sugar, Rice Crisp 8% (Rice Flour, Sugar, Barley Malt Extract, Raising Agent (Calcium Carbonate)), Wheat Flakes, Dark Chocolate Chunks 5% (Sugar, Cocoa Mass, Cocoa Butter, Emulsifier (Soya Lecithin), Flavouring), Milk Chocolate Chunks 5% (Sugar, Cows' Milk, Cocoa Mass, Cocoa Butter, Whey Powder (Cows' Milk), Emulsifier (Soya Lecithin)), White Chocolate Chunks 5% (Sugar, Cocoa Butter, Cows' Milk, Whey Powder (Cows' Milk), Emulsifier (Soya Lecithin), Flavouring), Palm Oil, Almonds, Flavouring, Sugar Syrup

Additives: E322 Lecithins , E322i Lecithin

As written on the pack

Oat Flakes (50%), Sugar, Rice Crisp (8%) (Rice Flour, Sugar, Barley Malt Extract, Raising Agent: Calcium Carbonate), Wheat Flakes, Dark Chocolate Chunks (5%) (Sugar, Cocoa Mass, Cocoa Butter, Emulsifier: Soya Lecithin; Flavouring), Milk Chocolate Chunks (5%) (Sugar, Whole Cows' Milk Powder, Cocoa Mass, Cocoa Butter, Whey Powder (Cows' Milk), Emulsifier: Soya Lecithin), White Chocolate Chunks (5%) (Sugar, Cocoa Butter, Whole Cows' Milk Powder, Whey Powder (Cows' Milk), Emulsifier: Soya Lecithin; Flavouring), Palm Oil, Almonds, Flavouring, Sugar Syrup Powder.

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.
  • 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.
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.

  • 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.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 14 cereal clusters with chocolate

From least to most processed, this one ranks 13th. 86% of the cereal clusters with chocolate 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 14 cereal clusters with chocolate, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 00405232, last edited 14 July 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 D (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.