Is Tesco Dark milk chocolate ultra-processed?

100g Milk chocolates Sold in the United Kingdom

It's processed, but not ultra-processed

Whole foods combined with:

Less processed isn't automatically healthier, so compare the labels for what matters to you, such as sugar or salt.

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Dried Whole Milk (processing marker), Cocoa Mass, Cocoa Butter (processing marker), Sugar (processing marker)

As written on the pack

Dried Whole Milk, Cocoa Mass, Cocoa Butter, Sugar.

Processed foods in their own right, such as cheese or milk powder.

Milk powder Milk powder is milk with the water evaporated off: a preserved form of a whole food rather than an industrial extract.

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.
Vegetable fat Vegetable fats are oils that are solid at room temperature, such as palm or coconut fat.

Open Food Facts puts every product in this category in at least this group.

From least to most processed, this one ranks 2nd. 93% of the milk chocolates 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.

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5059697710001, last edited 14 September 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.