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Is the Best 52% Cocoa Orange Dark Chocolate ultra-processed?

100 g Dark chocolates with orange Sold in the United Kingdom and Spain

Pack of the Best 52% Cocoa Orange Dark Chocolate

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:

  • 24 ingredients
  • 1 additive
  • Nutri-Score E

Less processed dark chocolates with orange

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

morrisons best orange dark chocolate is part of our premium mery collection, made in switzerland using the redients to bring you a little bit of luxury every day, ocoa orange dark chocolate avoured dark chocolate with pieces of candied orange peel, € ients sugar, cocoa mass, candied orange peel 10% (orange peel, sugar, fructose syrup, acidity regulator (citric acid)), cocoa butter, emulsifier (soya s), orange oil, flavouring, hocolate contains cocoa solids 52%, ergy advice for allergens, may also contain s containing gluten, milk, nuts, ition cal values per 100g per 1, 5 bar, %ri your r gy 2252kj

Additives: E330 Citric acid

As written on the pack

morrisons best orange dark chocolate is part of our premium mery collection, made in switzerland using the redients to bring you a little bit of luxury every day. ocoa orange dark chocolate avoured dark chocolate with pieces of candied orange peel. 100g € ients sugar, cocoa mass, candied orange peel (10%) (orange peel, sugar - fructose syrup, acidity regulator (citric acid)), cocoa butter, emulsifier (soya s), orange oil, flavouring. hocolate contains cocoa solids 52% minimum. ergy advice for allergens, see ingredients in bold. may also contain s containing gluten, milk and nuts. ition cal values per 100g per 1/5 bar (20g) %ri your r gy 2252kj/

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.

  • 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.

  • Fructose Fructose is the sugar found naturally in fruit and honey, but as an ingredient it is refined industrially, mostly from corn starch.
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.

  • Chocolates Products in the category "Chocolates" are at least group 3.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
  • Sweet snacks Products in the category "Sweet snacks" are at least group 3.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 10 dark chocolates with orange

From least to most processed, this one ranks 5th. 80% of the dark chocolates with orange 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 10 dark chocolates with orange, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5010251714620, last edited 14 June 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.