Is it ultra-processed?
Menu

Is Waitrose Milk chocolate with feulletine wafer and sea salt ultra-processed?

100 g Milk chocolates Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Waitrose Milk chocolate with feulletine wafer and sea salt

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:

  • 25 ingredients
  • 4 additives
  • Nutri-Score E

Less processed milk chocolates

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

COCoa butter, cane sugar, milk powder, COCOA mass, feuilletine wafer 11% (Sugar, wheat flour, rapeseed oil, sunflower oil, milk fat, lactose, salt, milk proteins, barley malt extract, emulsifier (sunflower lecithin), antioxidant (tocopherol-rich extract), raising agent (sodium carbonate)), milk fat, sea salt 0.2%, vanilla extract Milk Chocolate contains cocoa solids 49%, milk 25%, Cocoa mass from Dominican Republic cocoa beans

Additives: E322 Lecithins , E322i Lecithin , E500 Sodium carbonates , E500i Sodium carbonate

As written on the pack

COCoa butter, cane sugar, milk powder, COCOA mass, feuilletine wafer (11%) (Sugar, wheat flour, rapeseed oil, sunflower oil, milk fat, lactose (milk), salt, milk proteins, barley malt extract, emulsifier (sunflower lecithin), antioxidant (tocopherol-rich extract) raising agent (sodium carbonate)), milk fat, sea salt (0.2%), vanilla extract Milk Chocolate contains cocoa solids 49% minimum, milk solids 25% minimum. Cocoa mass from Dominican Republic cocoa beans

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.
  • Emulsifier Emulsifiers keep fat and water from separating, giving products a smooth, stable texture over a long shelf life.

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.

  • 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.
6 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.
  • 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 279 milk chocolates

From least to most processed, this one ranks 221st. 93% of the milk chocolates 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 279 milk chocolates, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5000169567425, 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.