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Is Tony’s Chocolonely Tony Littl' Bits: marshmallow & biscuit ultra-processed?

100 g Chocolates Sold in the United Kingdom, the United States and Ireland

Pack of Tony’s Chocolonely Tony Littl' Bits: marshmallow & biscuit

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:

  • 30 ingredients
  • 4 additives
  • Nutri-Score E

Less processed chocolates

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 76% (sugar, dried whole milk, cocoa butter, cocoa mass, emulsifier (soya lecithin)), biscuit 15% (whole wheat flour, wheat flour, sunflower oil, sugar, honey, salt), marshmallow 8% (sugar, glucose-fructose glazing Sent (gum arabic), Cocoa solids 1.68% (Milk), syrup, water, corn starch, dextrose, tapioca starch, gelling agent (carrageenan), hydrolysed rice protein), glazing agent (gum Arabic)

Additives: E322 Lecithins , E322i Lecithin , E407 Carrageenan , E414 Acacia gum

Also detected, but not matched to one ingredient: Hydrolysed proteins.

As written on the pack

76% milk chocolate (sugar, dried whole milk, cocoa butter, cocoa mass, emulsifier (soya lecithin)), 15% biscuit (whole wheat flour, wheat flour, sunflower oil, sugar, honey, salt), 8% vegetarian marshmallow (sugar, glucose-fructose glazing Sent (gum arabic). Cocoa solids: 32% minimum. Milk solids: 21% minimum. syrup, water, corn starch, dextrose, tapioca starch, gelling agent (carrageenan), hydrolysed rice protein), glazing agent (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.
  • E407 Carrageenan Carrageenan is a thickener and gelling agent extracted from red seaweed, used widely in dairy desserts, plant-based drinks and processed meats.
  • 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.
  • Gelling agent Gelling agents such as pectin, gelatine or carrageenan set liquids into gels and stabilise textures.
  • 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.

  • 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.
  • Hydrolysed proteins An ingredient mostly produced industrially and rarely used in home kitchens.
8 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.
  • Honey Honey, used as a sweetener.
  • 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.
  • 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 959 chocolates

From least to most processed, this one ranks 930th. 82% of the 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.

All 959 chocolates, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 8719956496622, 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.