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Is Starbucks Dark chocolate mocha flavour chilled coffee ultra-processed?

220 ml Arabica coffees Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Starbucks Dark chocolate mocha flavour chilled coffee

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:

  • 14 ingredients
  • 4 additives
  • Nutri-Score D

Less processed arabica coffees

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

fat milk 3%, Starbucks Arabica coffee (water, coffee), sugar 4.7%, chicory, inulin, fat-reduced cocoa powder 0.6%, acidity regulator (potassium carbonate), natural flavouring sea salt 0.08%, stabilisers (gellan gum, carrageenan)

Additives: E407 Carrageenan , E418 Gellan gum , E501 Potassium carbonates , E501i Potassium carbonate

As written on the pack

3% fat milk (75%), Starbucks Arabica coffee (water, coffee extract) (18.8%), sugar (4.7%), chicory, inulin, fat-reduced cocoa powder (0.6%), acidity regulator (potassium carbonate), natural flavouring sea salt (0.08%), stabilisers (gellan gum, carrageenan).

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.

  • E407 Carrageenan Carrageenan is a thickener and gelling agent extracted from red seaweed, used widely in dairy desserts, plant-based drinks and processed meats.
  • 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.

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.
1 ingredient 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.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 9 arabica coffees

From least to most processed, this one ranks 9th. 22% of the arabica coffees 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 9 arabica coffees, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5711953162992, last edited 27 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 D (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.