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Is Schär Piruett Chocolate Flavour ultra-processed?

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Pack of Schär Piruett Chocolate Flavour

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:

  • 32 ingredients
  • 8 additives

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

rice flour, filling 25% (sugar, coconut oil, potato starch, cocoa powder 1%, maize starch, emulsifier (sunflower lecithin), flavouring), maize starch, coconut oil, sugar, maize flour, glucose syrup, cocoa powder 1%, invert sugar syrup, sunflower oil, rice starch, raising agents (sodium bicarbonate), ammonium bicarbonate, thickener (xanthan gum), iodised salt (salt, potassium iodate), emulsifier (sunflower lecithin), flavourings, lactose-free storage, not above room temperature

Additives: E110 Sunset yellow FCF , E322 Lecithins , E322i Lecithin , E415 Xanthan gum , E500 Sodium carbonates , E500ii Sodium hydrogen carbonate , E503 Ammonium carbonates , E503ii Ammonium hydrogen carbonate

Also detected, but not matched to one ingredient: E110 Sunset yellow FCF.

As written on the pack

rice flour, filling 25% (sugar, coconut oil, potato starch, cocoa powder 1%, maize starch, emulsifier: sunflower lecithin, flavouring), maize starch, coconut oil, sugar, maize flour, glucose syrup, cocoa powder 1%, invert sugar syrup, sunflower oil, rice starch, raising agents: sodium bicarbonate, ammonium bicarbonate, thickener xanthan gum, iodised salt (salt, potassium iodate), emulsifier: sunflower lecithin, flavourings,lactose-free storage: dry, not above room temperature, 110 gram

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.

  • E110 Sunset yellow FCF Sunset yellow FCF is a synthetic orange azo dye (FD&C Yellow No. 6 in the US).
  • 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.
  • E415 Xanthan gum Xanthan gum is a thickener made by fermenting sugar with the bacterium Xanthomonas campestris.
  • 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.
  • 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.

  • 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.
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.
  • Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
  • Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.

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About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 8008698048788, last edited 2 April 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.