Is St Michel Choco muffin ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- 23 ingredients
- 5 additives
- Nutri-Score E
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Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
Eggs 21%, rapeseed oil, sugar (processing marker), wheat flour 16%, milk chocolate 12%, sugar (processing marker), cocoa butter, whole milk powder (processing marker), cocoa mass, emulsifier (ultra-processing marker) (lecithins (ultra-processing marker)), natural vanilla flavour (ultra-processing marker), stabiliser (glycerol (ultra-processing marker)), skimmed-milk powder (processing marker), starch (processing marker), raising agents (sodium carbonates, citric acid, sodium hydroxide (wheat)), salt (processing marker), flavouring (ultra-processing marker)
Additives: E322 Lecithins , E330 Citric acid , E422 Glycerol , E500 Sodium carbonates , E524 Sodium hydroxide
As written on the pack
Eggs 21%, rapeseed oil, sugar, wheat flour 16%, milk chocolate 12% (sugar, cocoa butter, whole milk powder, cocoa mass, emulsifier (lecithins (soya)), natural vanilla flavour), stabiliser (glycerol), skimmed-milk powder, starch, raising agents (sodium carbonates, citric acid, sodium hydroxide (wheat)), salt, 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.
- E422 Glycerol Glycerol is a sweet-tasting liquid used to keep products moist and soft.
- Emulsifier Emulsifiers keep fat and water from separating, giving products a smooth, stable texture over a long shelf life.
- Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.
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.
- Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.
- Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
- 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.
Among 13 sponge cakes
From least to most processed, this one ranks 3rd. 100% of the sponge cakes here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 3178530424713, last edited 4 June 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.