Is Tony’s Chocolonely Dark Orange Choco Cookie Bites ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- 18 ingredients
- 4 additives
- Nutri-Score E
Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
Daek chocolate 79% (cocoa mass, sugar (processing marker), cocoa butter, emulsifier (ultra-processing marker) (soya lecithin (ultra-processing marker))), orange flacoured cocoa biscuit 20% (wheat flour, sugar (processing marker), coconut oil (processing marker), wheat starch (processing marker), fat reduced cocoa powder, natural orange flavouring (ultra-processing marker), salt (processing marker), raising agents (ammonium carbonates)), glazing agents (ultra-processing marker) (gum arabic (ultra-processing marker))
Additives: E322 Lecithins , E322i Lecithin , E414 Acacia gum , E503 Ammonium carbonates
As written on the pack
Daek chocolate 79% (cocoa mass, sugar, cocoa butter, emulsifier (soya lecithin)), orange flacoured cocoa biscuit 20% (wheat flour, sugar, coconut oil, wheat starch, fat reduced cocoa powder, natural orange flavouring, salt, raising agents (ammonium carbonates)), glazing agents (gum arabic).
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.
- Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.
- Glazing agent Glazing agents, waxes and shellac for example, coat a surface to make it shiny or stop pieces sticking together.
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.
- Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.
- Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
- Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 8719956494475, 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.