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Is Tony's Chocolonely Milk chocolate with pieces of biscuit and caramel ultra-processed?

180g Milk chocolate bar Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Tony's Chocolonely Milk chocolate with pieces of biscuit and caramel

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
  • 4 additives
  • Nutri-Score E

Less processed milk chocolate bar

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

sugar, dried whole milk, cocoa butter, cocoa mass, biscuit 9% (wheat flour, sugar, butter, glucose syrup, skimmed milk powder, dextrose, ammonium carbonates, salt, whole milk powder, emulsifier (lecithins)), caramel 6%, sugar, sweetened condensed milk (milk, sugar), glucose syrup, salted butter (butter, salt), cocoa butter, stabiliser (carrageenan), salt, emulsifier (sunflower lecithin), emulsifier (soya lecithin)

Additives: E322 Lecithins , E322i Lecithin , E407 Carrageenan , E502 Carbonates

As written on the pack

sugar, dried whole milk, cocoa butter, cocoa mass, 9% biscuit (wheat flour, sugar, butter (milk), glucose syrup, skimmed milk powder, dextrose, ammonium carbonates, salt, whole milk powder, emulsifier (lecithins)), 6% caramel (sugar, sweetened condensed milk (milk, sugar), glucose syrup, salted butter (butter (milk), salt), cocoa butter, stabiliser (carrageenan), salt, emulsifier (sunflower lecithin)), emulsifier (soya lecithin),

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.
  • E407 Carrageenan Carrageenan is a thickener and gelling agent extracted from red seaweed, used widely in dairy desserts, plant-based drinks and processed meats.
  • Emulsifier Emulsifiers keep fat and water from separating, giving products a smooth, stable texture over a long shelf life.

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.

  • Dextrose Dextrose is pure glucose crystallised from starch-derived syrup.
  • 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.
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.

  • Chocolates Products in the category "Chocolates" are at least group 3.
  • Butter Butter, the fat churned from cream.
  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • 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 36 milk chocolate bar

From least to most processed, this one ranks 29th. 89% of the milk chocolate bar 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 36 milk chocolate bar, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 8719956496684, last edited 17 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.