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Is Whittaker's Creamy Milk Hazella Block ultra-processed?

250 g Filled milk chocolates Sold in the United Kingdom and New Zealand

Pack of Whittaker's Creamy Milk Hazella Block

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:

  • 20 ingredients
  • 3 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

milk chocolate (sugar, cocoa solids (cocoa butter, cocoa mass), milk powder (soy lecithin), vanilla flavour), hazelnut filling, ground hazelnuts 30%, sugar, cocoa solids (cocoa butter, cocoa mass), milk powder, emulsifier (soy lecithin), antioxidant (307b), flavour

Additives: E307b Concentrated tocopherol , E322 Lecithins , E322i Lecithin

As written on the pack

milk chocolate [sugar, cocoa solids 33% (cocoa butter, cocoa mass*), milk powder 30% (soy lecithin), vanilla flavour] hazelnut filling [ground hazelnuts 30%, sugar, cocoa solids (cocoa butter, cocoa mass), new zealand milk powder, emulsifier (soy lecithin), antioxidant (307b), flavour,

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.
  • Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.
4 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.
  • 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 9 filled milk chocolates

From least to most processed, this one ranks 4th. 100% of the filled 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 9 filled milk chocolates, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 9420063601104, last edited 28 April 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.