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Is Tesco Chocolate Crisp ultra-processed?

500g Cereal clusters with chocolate Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Tesco Chocolate Crisp

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:

  • 33 ingredients
  • 1 additive
  • Nutri-Score C

Less processed cereal clusters with chocolate

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

Oat Flakes, Sugar, Rice Crisps (Oat Flour, Rice Flour, Sugar, Cocoa Powder), Dark Chocolate 10% (Cocoa Solids, Sugar, Emulsifier (Soya Lecithins), Flavouring), Barley Flakes, Palm Oil, Glucose Syrup, Cocoa Powder, Milk Chocolate (Sugar, Cocoa Mass, Dried Whole Milk, Cocoa Butter, Skimmed Milk), Barley Malt Extract, Honey, Skimmed Milk, Flavouring, Chocolate Powder (Sugar, Cocoa Mass, Cocoa Powder, Vanilla Extract), Caramelised Sugar

Additives: E322 Lecithins

As written on the pack

Oat Flakes, Sugar, Rice Crisps (Oat Flour, Rice Flour, Sugar, Cocoa Powder), Dark Chocolate (10%) (Cocoa Solids, Sugar, Emulsifier (Soya Lecithins), Flavouring), Barley Flakes, Palm Oil, Glucose Syrup, Cocoa Powder, Milk Chocolate Powder (Sugar, Cocoa Mass, Dried Whole Milk, Cocoa Butter, Dried Skimmed Milk), Barley Malt Extract, Honey, Dried Skimmed Milk, Flavouring, Chocolate Powder (Sugar, Cocoa Mass, Cocoa Powder, Vanilla Extract), Caramelised Sugar,

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.
  • 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.
  • Glucose syrup Glucose syrup is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
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.

  • Honey Honey, used as a sweetener.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
  • 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 14 cereal clusters with chocolate

From least to most processed, this one ranks 14th. 86% of the cereal clusters with 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 14 cereal clusters with chocolate, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5057008079601, 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 C (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.