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Is Smile Cookies ultra-processed?

100 g Cookies with milk chocolate Sold in France

Pack of Smile Cookies

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:

  • 45 ingredients
  • 6 additives
  • Nutri-Score E

Less processed chocolate chip 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

Vetemjöl, chokladchips 20%, socker, mjölkchoklad (socker, fullmjölkspulver, kakaofett, kakaomassa, laktos (av mjölk), vasslepulver (av mjölk), lecitin (av soja), maltodextrin, capol 1400, para-orange kurkumin, nykockin, klorofyllinkopparkomplex, indigotin), fett (kokosnötolja, rapsfröolja), socker, mjölkchokladchips 5%, socker, fullmjölkspullver, kakaofett, kakaomassa, laktos (av mjölk), vasslepulver (av mjölk), lecitin (av soja), chokladchips ärkelse 5%, glukos-och fruktossirap (av vete), avfettad pulvermjölk, ammoniumkarbonat, salt aroma, övriga nötter, sesamfrön, liknande produkter, ägg

Additives: E124 Ponceau 4r , E132 Indigotine , E322 Lecithins , E322i Lecithin , E503 Ammonium carbonates , E503i Ammonium carbonate

As written on the pack

Vetemjöl, 20% chokladchips [socker, mjölkchoklad (socker, fullmjölkspulver, kakaofett, kakaomassa, laktos (av mjölk), vasslepulver (av mjölk), emulgeringsmedel: lecitin (av soja), färgämne: maltodextrin, capol 1400, färgämnen: para-orange kurkumin, nykockin, klorofyllinkopparkomplex, indigotin), vegetabiliskt fett (kokosnötolja, rapsfröolja), socker,5 % mjölkchokladchips (socker, fullmjölkspullver, kakaofett, kakaomassa, laktos (av mjölk), vasslepulver (av mjölk), emulgeringsmedel: lecitin (av soja), 5% chokladchips ärkelse, glukos-och fruktossirap (av vete), avfettad pulvermjölk, jäsmedel: ammoniumkarbonat, salt aroma. Produkten kan innehålla: jordnötter, övriga nötter, sesamfrön och liknande produkter, ägg.

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.

  • E124 Ponceau 4r Colours are substances which add or restore colour in a food, and include natural constituents of foods and natural sources which are normally not consumed as foods as such and not normally used as characteristic ingredients of food.
  • E132 Indigotine Colours are substances which add or restore colour in a food, and include natural constituents of foods and natural sources which are normally not consumed as foods as such and not normally used as characteristic ingredients of 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.

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.
  • Lactose Lactose is milk sugar, crystallised industrially from whey, a by-product of cheese making.
  • Maltodextrin Maltodextrin is a white powder made by partly breaking down starch.
  • 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.
  • Fructose Fructose is the sugar found naturally in fruit and honey, but as an ingredient it is refined industrially, mostly from corn starch.
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.

  • 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.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 11 cookies with milk chocolate

From least to most processed, this one ranks 5th. 100% of the cookies with milk chocolate 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 11 cookies with milk chocolate, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5902379721836, last edited 19 March 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.