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Is Valor Chocolates 70% Cacao Dark Chocolate with Orange ultra-processed?

2 Dark chocolates with orange Sold in the United States and Morocco

Pack of Valor Chocolates 70% Cacao Dark Chocolate with Orange

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:

  • 16 ingredients
  • 5 additives
  • Nutri-Score E

Less processed dark chocolates with orange

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

Semisweet chocolate (chocolate, sugar, cocoa processed with alkali, cocoa butter, soy lecithin, an emulsifier), sugar, orange pulp, apple, pineapple fiber, sodium alginate, sodium phosphate, citric acid, natural orange flavor, total cacao components in semisweet chocolate 70%

Additives: E322 Lecithins , E322i Lecithin , E330 Citric acid , E339 Sodium phosphates , E401 Sodium alginate

As written on the pack

Semisweet chocolate (chocolate, sugar, cocoa processed with alkali, cocoa butter, soy lecithin - an emulsifier), sugar, orange pulp, apple, pineapple fiber, sodium alginate, sodium phosphate, citric acid, natural orange flavor, total cacao components in semisweet chocolate: 70%.

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.
  • E401 Sodium alginate A food additive used to dissolve, dilute, disperse or otherwise physically modify a food additive or nutrient without altering its function -and without exerting any technological effect itself- in order to facilitate its handling, application or use of the food additive or nutrient.
  • 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.

  • 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.
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.

  • Chocolates Products in the category "Chocolates" are at least group 3.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
  • Sweet snacks Products in the category "Sweet snacks" are at least group 3.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 10 dark chocolates with orange

From least to most processed, this one ranks 9th. 80% of the dark chocolates with orange 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 10 dark chocolates with orange, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 8410109050523, last edited 4 February 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.