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Is Torani Puremade Sauce Dark Chocolate ultra-processed?

16.5 oz, 468 g Chocolate sauce Sold in the United States

Pack of Torani Puremade Sauce 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:

  • 9 ingredients
  • 1 additive
  • Nutri-Score D

Less processed chocolate sauce

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

pure cane sugar, water, invert cane sugar, breakfast cocoa, cocoa, chocolate liquor, citric acid, natural flavors, salt

Additives: E330 Citric acid

As written on the pack

PURE CANE SUGAR, WATER, INVERT CANE SUGAR, BREAKFAST COCOA (PROCESSED WITH ALKALI), COCOA (PROCESSED WITH ALKALI), CHOCOLATE LIQUOR, CITRIC ACID, NATURAL FLAVORS, SALT

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.

  • 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.

  • Invert sugar Invert sugar is ordinary sugar split into glucose and fructose with acid or enzymes.
  • BREAKFAST COCOA An ingredient mostly produced industrially and rarely used in home kitchens.
  • Cocoa An ingredient mostly produced industrially and rarely used in home kitchens.
2 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.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 16 chocolate sauce

From least to most processed, this one ranks 10th. 75% of the chocolate sauce 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 16 chocolate sauce, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0089036780001, last edited 5 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 D (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.