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Is Trader Joe's Pain Au Lait Chocolate Chip French Chocolate Chip Milk Rolls ultra-processed?

280 g Viennoiseries Sold in the United States

Pack of Trader Joe's Pain Au Lait Chocolate Chip French Chocolate Chip Milk Rolls

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:

  • 23 ingredients
  • 3 additives
  • Nutri-Score E

Less processed viennoiseries

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

wheat flour, chocolate chips (sugar, cocoa mass, cocoa butter, soy lecithin), sugar, palm oil, eggs, water, mono- and diglycerides, canola oil, yeast, whole milk powder 2%, salt, ascorbic acid, wheat gluten, wheat fiber, psyllium fiber, casein, calcium caseinate, natural flavor, enzymes

Additives: E322 Lecithins , E322i Lecithin , E471 Mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids

As written on the pack

wheat flour, chocolate chips (sugar, cocoa mass, cocoa butter, soy lecithin), sugar, palm oil, eggs, water, mono and diglycerides, canola oil, yeast, 2% whole milk powder, salt, ascorbic acid, wheat gluten, wheat fiber, psyllium fiber, casein, calcium caseinate, natural flavor, enzymes

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.
  • E471 Mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids Mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids are made from fats and glycerol.
  • 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.

  • Casein Casein is the main protein in milk, separated industrially and used to bind, emulsify and add protein.
  • Gluten Wheat gluten, sold as "vital wheat gluten", is the protein washed out of wheat flour.
  • Milk proteins Milk proteins are proteins separated from milk, such as caseinates and whey protein concentrates, added to adjust texture or raise protein content.
  • Vegetable fiber Isolated plant fibres, such as inulin, oat fibre or bamboo fibre, are extracted industrially and added to change texture or support "source of fibre" claims.
5 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.
  • 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.
  • Enzyme Enzymes carry out traditional processes such as cheese making and baking.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 145 viennoiseries

From least to most processed, this one ranks 98th. 90% of the viennoiseries 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 145 viennoiseries, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 00620239, last edited 19 August 2025), 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.