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Is Tony's Chocolonely Chocolonely Littl' Bits - Milk Caramel Sea Salt ultra-processed?

100g Bonbons Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Tony's Chocolonely Chocolonely Littl' Bits - Milk Caramel Sea Salt

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:

  • 36 ingredients
  • 6 additives
  • Nutri-Score E

Less processed bonbons

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

milk chocolate 79% (sugar, dried whole milk, cocoa butter, cocoa mass, emulsifier (soya lecithin)), caramel 11% (sugar, invert sugar syrup, butter, glucose syrup, skimmed milk, emulsifier (rapeseed lecithin), acidity regulator (sodium carbonates)), biscuit 9% (wheat flour, sugar, butter, wheat starch, dried whole milk, salt, glucose-fructose-syrup, whey, raising agent (ammonium carbonates, sodium carbonates), acid (citric acid)), sea salt 0.28%, glazing agent (gum arabic), Cocoa solids 21% (Milk)

Additives: E322 Lecithins , E322i Lecithin , E330 Citric acid , E414 Acacia gum , E500 Sodium carbonates , E503 Ammonium carbonates

As written on the pack

79% milk chocolate (sugar, dried whole milk, cocoa butter, cocoa mass, emulsifier (soya lecithin)), 11% caramel (sugar, invert sugar syrup, butter (milk), glucose syrup, dried skimmed milk, emulsifier (rapeseed lecithin), acidity regulator (sodium carbonates)), 9% biscuit (wheat flour, sugar, butter (milk), wheat starch, dried whole milk, salt, glucose-fructose-syrup, dried whey (milk), raising agent (ammonium carbonates, sodium carbonates), acid (citric acid)), 0.28% sea salt, glazing agent (gum arabic). Cocoa solids: 32% minimum. Milk solids: 21% minimum.

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.
  • E414 Acacia gum Gum arabic (acacia gum) is the hardened sap of acacia trees, used to stabilise flavour emulsions in soft drinks and to coat sweets.
  • Emulsifier Emulsifiers keep fat and water from separating, giving products a smooth, stable texture over a long shelf life.
  • Glazing agent Glazing agents, waxes and shellac for example, coat a surface to make it shiny or stop pieces sticking together.

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.
  • Invert sugar Invert sugar is ordinary sugar split into glucose and fructose with acid or enzymes.
  • 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.
  • Fructose Fructose is the sugar found naturally in fruit and honey, but as an ingredient it is refined industrially, mostly from corn starch.
6 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.

  • Butter Butter, the fat churned from cream.
  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.
  • 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 193 bonbons

From least to most processed, this one ranks 142nd. 94% of the bonbons 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 193 bonbons, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 8719956494437, last edited 5 April 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.