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Is tastinoKuljanka Curls ultra-processed?

280 g Chocolate stuffed wafers Sold in the United Kingdom and the Czech Republic

Pack of tastinoKuljanka Curls

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:

  • 23 ingredients
  • 3 additives
  • Nutri-Score E

Less processed chocolate biscuits

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

sugar, palm fat, wheat flour, skimmed milk powder, fat reduced cocoa powder 3.5%, lactose, chocolate 2% (sugar, cocoa mass, cocoa fat, palm fat, emulsifiers (soya lecithins, polyglycerol polyricinoleate), flavouring), partially pregelatinised wheat flour, glucose, colour (ammonia caramel), emulsifier (soya lecithins), flavouring, salt

Additives: E150c Ammonia caramel , E322 Lecithins , E476 Polyglycerol polyricinoleate

Also detected, but not matched to one ingredient: E150c Ammonia caramel.

As written on the pack

sugar, palm fat, wheat flour, skimmed milk powder, 3,5% fat reduced cocoa powder, lactose ( milk ), 2% chocolate (sugar, cocoa mass, cocoa fat, palm fat, emulsifiers ( soya lecithins, polyglycerol polyricinoleate), flavouring), partially pregelatinised wheat flour, glucose, colour (ammonia caramel), emulsifier (soya lecithins), flavouring, salt

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.

  • E150c Ammonia caramel Ammonia caramel is a brown colour made by heating sugars with ammonia compounds.
  • 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.
  • E476 Polyglycerol polyricinoleate Polyglycerol polyricinoleate (PGPR) is an emulsifier made from castor oil.
  • Colour Colours are added to restore colour lost in processing or to make a product look more appealing.
  • 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.

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.
4 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.
  • 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 13 chocolate stuffed wafers

From least to most processed, this one ranks 12th. 100% of the chocolate stuffed wafers 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 13 chocolate stuffed wafers, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 20498351, 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 E (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.