Is Vosges Pink himalayan salt caramel bar ultra-processed?

3 oz Chocolate candies Sold in the United States

Pack of Vosges Pink himalayan salt caramel bar

No, it's a kitchen staple

  1. 1 Unprocessed
  2. 2 Kitchen staple
  3. 3 Processed
  4. 4 Ultra-processed

It is pressed or refined from a food and used for cooking, like oil, butter or sugar.

  • 12 ingredients
  • No additives

Ingredients

Dark chocolate (cocoa mass, sugar, cocoa butter, soy lecithin-an emulisifier natural vanilla flavor), caramel (cream, cane sugar, brown rice syrup, non-gmo soy lecithin-an emulisifier), water, sea salt

As written on the pack

Dark chocolate (cocoa mass*,sugar*, cocoa butter*, soy lecithin-an emulisifier natural vanilla flavor*), caramel (cream, organic cane sugar*, organic brown rice syrup, non-gmo soy lecithin-an emulisifier), water, sea salt.

Why it is in group 2

Category rules

Open Food Facts puts every product in this category in at least this group.

  • Salts Products in the category "Salts" are at least group 2.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 776 chocolate candies

From least to most processed, this one ranks 1st. 91% of the chocolate candies 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 776 chocolate candies, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0810048011599, last edited 3 March 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.
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.