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Is Silk Almond Milk Dark Chocolate ultra-processed?

Plant-based milk alternatives Sold in the United States

Pack of Silk Almond Milk Dark 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:

  • 19 ingredients
  • 3 additives
  • Nutri-Score D

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Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Almondmilk (Water, Almonds), Cane Sugar, Cocoa, and Less of 5% (Vitamin and Mineral Blend, Calcium Carbonate), Vitamin E Acetate, Vitamin A Palmitate, vitamins, vitamin D2, Vitamin B12, Sea Salt, Sunflower Oil, Gellan Gum, Sodium Ascorbate (Vitamin C to Protect Freshness), Natural Flavor

Additives: E170 Calcium carbonates , E170i Calcium carbonate , E418 Gellan gum

As written on the pack

Almondmilk (Water, Almonds), Cane Sugar, Cocoa (Processed with Alkali), Contains 0.5% or Less of: Vitamin and Mineral Blend (Calcium Carbonate, Vitamin E Acetate, Vitamin A Palmitate, Vitamin D2, Vitamin B12), Sea Salt, Sunflower Oil, Gellan Gum, Sodium Ascorbate (Vitamin C to Protect Freshness), Natural Flavor.

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.

  • E170 Calcium carbonates Calcium carbonate is chalk.
  • E418 Gellan gum Stabilisers are substances which make it possible to maintain the physico-chemical state of a foodstuff; stabilisers include substances which enable the maintenance of a homogenous dispersion of two or more immiscible substances in a foodstuff, substances which stabilise, retain or intensify an existing colour of a foodstuff and substances which increase the binding capacity of the food, including the formation of cross-links between proteins enabling the binding of food pieces into re-constituted food.
  • 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.

  • Cocoa An ingredient mostly produced industrially and rarely used in home kitchens.
3 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.
  • Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 593 plant-based milk alternatives

From least to most processed, this one ranks 491st. 71% of the plant-based milk alternatives 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 593 plant-based milk alternatives, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0025293001190, last edited 25 May 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.