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Is Waitrose Duchy Organic Orange Biscuits Coated in Dark Chocolate ultra-processed?

100 g Dark chocolate biscuits Sold in the United Kingdom and France

Pack of Waitrose Duchy Organic Orange Biscuits Coated in Dark 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:

  • 22 ingredients
  • 2 additives
  • Nutri-Score E

Less processed dark chocolate biscuits

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

dark chocolate 50% (sugar, cocoa mass, cocoa butter), fortified wheat flour (wheat flour, calcium carbonate, iron, niacin, thiamin), salted butter (butter, salt), oats, sugar, crystallised orange peel 6% (orange peel, corn syrup, concentrated lemon juice), flavouring, sea salt, ammonium hydrogen carbonate

Additives: E503 Ammonium carbonates , E503ii Ammonium hydrogen carbonate

As written on the pack

organic dark chocolate 50% (sugar, cocoa mass, cocoa butter), organic fortified wheat flour (organic wheat flour, calcium carbonate, iron, niacin, thiamin), organic salted butter (organic butter (milk), salt), organic oats, organic sugar, organic crystallised orange peel 6% (organic orange peel, organic corn syrup, organic concentrated lemon juice), flavouring, sea salt, raising agent ammonium hydrogen carbonate

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.

  • 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.
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.

  • Butter Butter, the fat churned from cream.
  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
  • Vegetable fat Vegetable fats are oils that are solid at room temperature, such as palm or coconut fat.
  • Sweet snacks Products in the category "Sweet snacks" are at least group 3.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 14 dark chocolate biscuits

From least to most processed, this one ranks 3rd. 86% of the dark chocolate biscuits 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 14 dark chocolate biscuits, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5000169149812, last edited 12 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.