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Is Skinny Dream Triple Choc Brownie ultra-processed?

5X19g Candy chocolate bars Sold in Ireland

Pack of Skinny Dream Triple Choc Brownie

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:

  • 54 ingredients
  • 5 additives
  • Nutri-Score C

Less processed candy chocolate bars

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

Crisped Cereal 22% (Rice Flour, Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Niacin, Iron, Thiamin), Sugar, Fat Reduced Cocoa Powder, Salt, Malted Barley Flour, Rapeseed Oil, Whey Powder), Oligofructose, Milk Chocolate 11% (Sugar, Cocoa Butter, Cocoa Mass, Skimmed Milk Powder, Lactose, Whey Powder, Anhydrous Milk Fat, Soya Lecithin, Polyglycerol Polyricinoleate, Natural Vanilla Flavouring), Oats, Polydextrose, Dark Chocolate 5% (Sugar, Cocoa Mass, Cocoa Butter, Soya Lecithin, Natural Vanilla Flavouring), Glucose Syrup, White Chocolate 4% (Sugar, Cocoa Butter, Whole Milk Powder, Lactose, Whey Powder, Soya Lecithin, Natural Vanilla Flavouring), Sweetened Condensed Skimmed Milk (Milk, Sugar), Invert Sugar Syrup, Water, Fat Reduced Cocoa Powder, Glycerine, Palm Oil, Natural Flavourings, Caramelised Sugar, Soya Lecithin

Additives: E1200 Polydextrose , E322 Lecithins , E322i Lecithin , E422 Glycerol , E476 Polyglycerol polyricinoleate

As written on the pack

Crisped Cereal (22%) [Rice Flour, Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Niacin, Iron, Thiamin), Sugar, Fat Reduced Cocoa Powder, Salt, Malted Barley Flour, Rapeseed Oil, Whey Powder (Milk)], Oligofructose, Milk Chocolate (11%) [Sugar, Cocoa Butter, Cocoa Mass, Skimmed Milk Powder, Lactose (Milk), Whey Powder (Milk), Anhydrous Milk Fat, Emulsifiers (Soya Lecithin, Polyglycerol Polyricinoleate), Natural Vanilla Flavouring], Oats, Bulking Agent (Polydextrose), Dark Chocolate (5%) [Sugar, Cocoa Mass, Cocoa Butter, Emulsifier (Soya Lecithin), Natural Vanilla Flavouring], Glucose Syrup, White Chocolate (4%) [Sugar, Cocoa Butter, Whole Milk Powder, Lactose (Milk), Whey Powder (Milk), Emulsifier (Soya Lecithin), Natural Vanilla Flavouring], Sweetened Condensed Skimmed Milk (Milk, Sugar), Invert Sugar Syrup, Water, Fat Reduced Cocoa Powder, Humectant (Glycerine), Palm Oil, Natural Flavourings, Caramelised Sugar, Emulsifier (Soya Lecithin).

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.
  • E422 Glycerol Glycerol is a sweet-tasting liquid used to keep products moist and soft.
  • E476 Polyglycerol polyricinoleate Polyglycerol polyricinoleate (PGPR) is an emulsifier made from castor oil.
  • 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.

  • 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.
  • Lactose Lactose is milk sugar, crystallised industrially from whey, a by-product of cheese making.
  • 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.
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.

  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • 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.
  • Sweet snacks Products in the category "Sweet snacks" are at least group 3.
  • Milk powder Milk powder is milk with the water evaporated off: a preserved form of a whole food rather than an industrial extract.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 201 candy chocolate bars

From least to most processed, this one ranks 178th. 94% of the candy chocolate bars 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 201 candy chocolate bars, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5056315501232, last edited 19 August 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 C (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.