Is Weetabix Chocolate Melts ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- 31 ingredients
- 3 additives
- Nutri-Score C
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Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
Wheat Flour 45%, Milk Chocolate Filling (Sunflower Oil (processing marker), Sugar (processing marker), Milk Chocolate 5.5% (Cocoa Mass, Whole Milk Powder (processing marker), Fat Reduced Cocoa Powder, Sugar (processing marker)), Whole Milk Powder (processing marker), Inulin (ultra-processing marker), Skimmed Milk Powder (processing marker), Glucose Syrup (ultra-processing marker), Fat Reduced Cocoa Powder, Sunflower Lecithin (ultra-processing marker), Flavouring (ultra-processing marker), Tocopherols), Maltodextrin (ultra-processing marker), Wheat Bran, Inulin (ultra-processing marker), Sugar (processing marker), Malted Barley Flour, Salt (processing marker), Niacin, Iron, Riboflavin (B2), Thiamin (B1), Folic Acid, Vitamin D
Additives: E306 Tocopherol-rich extract , E322 Lecithins , E322i Lecithin
As written on the pack
Wholegrain Wheat Flour (45%), Milk Chocolate Filling (Sunflower Oil, Sugar, Milk Chocolate (5.5%) (Cocoa Mass, Whole Milk Powder, Fat Reduced Cocoa Powder*, Sugar), Whole Milk Powder, Inulin, Skimmed Milk Powder, Glucose Syrup, Fat Reduced Cocoa Powder*, Emulsifier: Sunflower Lecithin, Flavouring, Antioxidant: Tocopherols), Maltodextrin, Wheat Bran, Inulin, Sugar, Malted Barley Flour, Salt, Niacin, Iron, Riboflavin (B2), Thiamin (B1), Folic Acid, Vitamin D.
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.
- 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.
- Glucose syrup Glucose syrup is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
- Maltodextrin Maltodextrin is a white powder made by partly breaking down starch.
- 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.
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.
- 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.
Among 1,868 breakfast cereals
From least to most processed, this one ranks 1794th. 60% of the breakfast cereals here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5010029227116, 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 C (from A, best, to E).
- General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.