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Is Xtra Chokoladekiks ultra-processed?

125 g Sold in Sweden

Pack of Xtra Chokoladekiks

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:

  • 21 ingredients
  • 4 additives

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

sugar, wheat flour (wheat), cocoa mass, cocoa butter, butter 4%, glucose syrup, lubricating oil, baking powder (e503, e500), emulsifier (e322 soya), warm milk powder, whey powder, salt, acid (e330), dark chocolate 63%, biscuits 37%, dark chocolate contains at least 50% cocoa solids

Additives: E322 Lecithins , E330 Citric acid , E500 Sodium carbonates , E503 Ammonium carbonates

Also detected, but not matched to one ingredient: E322 Lecithins.

As written on the pack

sugar, wheat flour (wheat: eu), cocoa mass*, cocoa butter*, butter 4%, glucose syrup, lubricating oil, baking powder (e 503, e500), emulsifier (e 322 soya), warm milk powder, whey powder (milk), salt, acid (e 330), may contain traces of rye, barley, oats and hazelnuts, dark chocolate 63%, biscuits 37%, dark chocolate contains at least 50% cocoa solids,

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.

  • 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.
  • Whey Whey is the liquid left over from cheese making, usually dried into a powder and used as a cheap source of milk solids, protein and lactose.
3 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.

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About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 7340191143852, last edited 2 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.
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.