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Is Schär Soft cookies double chocolate ultra-processed?

6 x 35 g Drop cookies Sold in the United Kingdom, France and 3 more countries

Pack of Schär Soft cookies double chocolate

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:

  • 33 ingredients
  • 9 additives
  • Nutri-Score E

Less processed drop cookies

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

Maize starch, chocolate chips 14% (sugar, cocoa mass, cocoa butter, soya lecithin, natural flavouring), brown sugar, rice flour, vegetable margarine (vegetable fats, oils (coconut oils, sunflower oils), water), butter, chocolate 5.5% (cocoa mass, sugar, cocoa butter, soya lecithin), fructose-glucose syrup, sorbitol syrup, eggs, fructose, cocoa powder 2.3%, dextrose, xanthan gum, sodium bicarbonate, ammonium bicarbonate, salt, soya lecithin, natural flavouring

Additives: E322 Lecithins , E322i Lecithin , E415 Xanthan gum , E420 Sorbitol , E420ii Sorbitol syrup , E500 Sodium carbonates , E500ii Sodium hydrogen carbonate , E503 Ammonium carbonates , E503ii Ammonium hydrogen carbonate

As written on the pack

Maize starch, chocolate chips 14% (sugar, cocoa mass*, cocoa butter*, emulsifier: soya lecithin; natural flavouring), brown sugar, rice flour, vegetable margarine [vegetable fats and oils (coconut, sunflower), water]; butter (milk), chocolate 5,5% (cocoa mass*, sugar, cocoa butter*, emulsifier: soya lecithin); fructose-glucose syrup, stabilizer: sorbitol syrup; eggs, fructose, cocoa powder* 2,3 %, dextrose, thickener: xanthan gum; raising agents: sodium bicarbonate, ammonium bicarbonate; salt, emulsifier: soya lecithin; natural 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.
  • E415 Xanthan gum Xanthan gum is a thickener made by fermenting sugar with the bacterium Xanthomonas campestris.
  • E420 Sorbitol Sorbitol is a sugar alcohol used as a sweetener and to keep products moist.
  • 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.

  • Dextrose Dextrose is pure glucose crystallised from starch-derived syrup.
  • Glucose Glucose, usually listed as glucose syrup, is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
  • Fructose Fructose is the sugar found naturally in fruit and honey, but as an ingredient it is refined industrially, mostly from corn starch.
7 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.

  • Butter Butter, the fat churned from cream.
  • 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 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 64 drop cookies

From least to most processed, this one ranks 45th. 94% of the drop cookies 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 64 drop cookies, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 8008698040126, last edited 5 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 E (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.