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Is Swiss Miss Milk Chocolate Flavor Reduced Calorie Hot Cocoa Mix ultra-processed?

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Pack of Swiss Miss Milk Chocolate Flavor Reduced Calorie Hot Cocoa Mix

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:

  • 19 ingredients
  • 5 additives
  • Nutri-Score E

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

iron 1.8mg 10% potassium 240mg 6% the % daily value (dv), tells you how much a nutrient in a serving of food contributes to a daily diet, 2‚000 calories a day is used for general nutrition advice, ngredients (nonfat milk), cocoa, calcium carbonate, whey, salt, less than 2% of (cocoa powder), natural flavor, acesulfame potassium, sucralose, disodium phosphate, conagra brands ро, вох 3534 chicago, il 60654

Additives: E170 Calcium carbonates , E170i Calcium carbonate , E339ii Disodium phosphate , E950 Acesulfame k , E955 Sucralose

As written on the pack

iron 1.8mg 10% potassium 240mg 6% the % daily value (dv) tells you how much a nutrient in a serving of food contributes to a daily diet. 2,000 calories a day is used for general nutrition advice. ngredients: nonfat milk, cocoa (processed with alkali), calcium carbonate, modified whey, salt, less than 2% of: cocoa powder, natural flavor, acesulfame potassium, sucralose, disodium phosphate. contains: milk. conagra brands ро. вох 3534 chicago, il 60654 gluten free

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.

  • E170 Calcium carbonates Calcium carbonate is chalk.
  • E950 Acesulfame k Acesulfame K is a synthetic sweetener about 200 times sweeter than sugar, often combined with aspartame or sucralose.
  • E955 Sucralose Sucralose is a sweetener made by chlorinating sugar.
  • 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.

  • 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.
  • Cocoa An ingredient mostly produced industrially and rarely used in home kitchens.
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.

  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.

How the NOVA groups work

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0070920476568, last edited 24 January 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.