Is Simply Nature Dark Chocolate & Sea Salt ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- 32 ingredients
- No additives
- Nutri-Score E
Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
whole grain blend (oats, amaranth, millet), cane sugar (processing marker), chocolate chips (cane sugar (processing marker), chocolate, cocoa butter), honey (processing marker), brown rice, coconut oil cornmeal, almonds, cocoa powder, brown rice syrup, chia seeds, natural flavors (ultra-processing marker), coconut, sea salt (processing marker), sesame seeds, soluble corn fiber (ultra-processing marker), corn starch (processing marker), rice bpan extract, sunflower oil contains (processing marker) (ai monds), shell fragments, contain brazil nuts, cashews, hazelnuts, 05103 pecans, walnuts, soy
As written on the pack
whole grain blend (gluten free oats, amaranth, millet), cane sugar, chocolate chips (cane sugar, unsweetened chocolate, cocoa butter), honey, brown rice, coconut oil cornmeal, almonds, cocoa powder, brown rice syrup, chia seeds, natural flavors, coconut, sea salt, sesame seeds, soluble corn fiber, corn starch, rice bpan extract, sunflower oil contains: ai monds ,coconut warning: may contain nut shell fragments, contain brazil nuts, cashews, hazelnuts, 05103 pecans, walnuts,soy,
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.
- 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.
- Vegetable fiber Isolated plant fibres, such as inulin, oat fibre or bamboo fibre, are extracted industrially and added to change texture or support "source of fibre" claims.
5 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.
- Honey Honey, used as a sweetener.
- 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.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 4099100029543, last edited 28 August 2024), 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.