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Is Triple cookie chocolate ultra-processed?

Milk chocolate bar Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Triple cookie 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:

  • 51 ingredients
  • 7 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

Milk Chocolate 91% (Sugar, Cocoa Butter, Cows' Milk, Cocoa Mass, Whey Powder (Cows' Milk), Emulsifier (Soya Lecithin), Flavouring), Butter Cookie 3% (Sugar, Wheat Flour, Concentrated Butter (Cows' Milk), Lactose (Cows' Milk), Milk Proteins (Cows' Milk), Salt, Barley Malt Extract, Raising Agent (Sodium Bicarbonate)), Cocoa Cookie 3% (Wheat Flour, Sugar, Butter (from Cows' Milk), Cocoa Powder, Margarine (Vegetable Oils and Fats), Glucose Syrup, Colour (Vegetable Carbon), Salt, Raising Agent (Ammonium Bicarbonate)), Vanilla Cookie 3% (Wheat Flour, Sugar, Sunflower Oil, Skimmed Cows' Milk Powder, Glucose-Fructose Syrup, Raising Agent (Sodium Bicarbonate), Ammonium Bicarbonate, Salt, Bourbon Vanilla Bean), Milk Chocolate contains (Cocoa Solids, Milk)

Additives: E153 Vegetable carbon , E322 Lecithins , E322i Lecithin , E500 Sodium carbonates , E500ii Sodium hydrogen carbonate , E503 Ammonium carbonates , E503ii Ammonium hydrogen carbonate

As written on the pack

Milk Chocolate (91%) (Sugar, Cocoa Butter, Whole Cows' Milk Powder, Cocoa Mass, Whey Powder (Cows' Milk), Emulsifier: Soya Lecithin; Flavouring), Butter Cookie (3%) (Sugar, Wheat Flour, Concentrated Butter (Cows' Milk), Lactose (Cows' Milk), Milk Proteins (Cows' Milk), Salt, Barley Malt Extract, Raising Agent: Sodium Bicarbonate), Cocoa Cookie (3%) (Wheat Flour, Sugar, Butter (from Cows' Milk), Cocoa Powder, Margarine: Vegetable Oils and Fats; Glucose Syrup, Colour: Vegetable Carbon; Salt, Raising Agent: Ammonium Bicarbonate), Vanilla Cookie (3%) (Wheat Flour, Sugar, Sunflower Oil, Skimmed Cows' Milk Powder, Glucose-Fructose Syrup, Raising Agent: Sodium Bicarbonate, Ammonium Bicarbonate; Salt, Bourbon Vanilla Bean Powder). Milk Chocolate contains: Cocoa Solids 30% minimum. Milk Solids 18% minimum.

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.

  • E153 Vegetable carbon A food additive authorised for industrial food production.
  • 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.
  • Colour Colours are added to restore colour lost in processing or to make a product look more appealing.
  • 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.

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.

  • 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.
  • Lactose Lactose is milk sugar, crystallised industrially from whey, a by-product of cheese making.
  • Milk proteins Milk proteins are proteins separated from milk, such as caseinates and whey protein concentrates, added to adjust texture or raise protein content.
  • Whey Whey is the liquid left over from cheese making, usually dried into a powder and used as a cheap source of milk solids, protein and lactose.
  • Fructose Fructose is the sugar found naturally in fruit and honey, but as an ingredient it is refined industrially, mostly from corn starch.
7 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.
  • 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 36 milk chocolate bar

From least to most processed, this one ranks 35th. 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 00473729, 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.