Is Unreal milk chocolate ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- 21 ingredients
- 5 additives
- Nutri-Score E
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Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
milk chocolate (chocolate liquor, nonfat milk, whole milk powder (processing marker), sugar (processing marker), cocoa butter, blue agave inulin, sunflower lecithin (ultra-processing marker), vanilla), cane sugar (processing marker), colored with (ultra-processing marker) (beet juice, carrot juice, hibiscus, annatto, turmeric extract (ultra-processing marker), red cabbage), tapioca syrup, sugar (processing marker), gum acacia (ultra-processing marker), carnauba wax (ultra-processing marker)
Additives: E100 Curcumin , E322 Lecithins , E322i Lecithin , E414 Acacia gum , E903 Carnauba wax
As written on the pack
milk chocolate (organic chocolate liquor*, organic nonfat milk, organic whole milk powder, sugar*, cocoa butter*, organic blue agave inulin, sunflower lecithin, vanilla*), cane sugar, colored with (beet juice, carrot juice, hibiscus juice, annatto extract, turmeric extract, red cabbage juice), tapioca syrup, sugar, gum acacia, carnauba wax,
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.
- E100 Curcumin Colours are substances which add or restore colour in a food, and include natural constituents of foods and natural sources which are normally not consumed as foods as such and not normally used as characteristic ingredients of 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.
- 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.
- E903 Carnauba wax Carnauba wax comes from the leaves of a Brazilian palm and gives sweets and coated chocolates their shine.
- Colour Colours are added to restore colour lost in processing or to make a product look more appealing.
3 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.
- 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.
Among 773 chocolate candies
From least to most processed, this one ranks 500th. 91% of the chocolate candies here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0857484006284, last edited 26 May 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.