Is Zazubean Organic Chocolate Orange & Ginger Squeeze, 70% Cocoa ultra-processed?

3 oz / 85 g (per bar) Dark chocolates Sold in the United States and Canada

It's processed, but not ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Whole foods combined with:

Sugar

14 ingredients
No additives
Nutri-Score D

Less processed sweet snacks

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 mass +, raw cane sugar + (processing marker), cocoa butter +, ginger (ginger, raw cane sugar (processing marker)), turmeric +, orange oil, vanilla pods +, + certified _may contain milk, hazelnuts, almonds, peanuts, _

As written on the pack

Cocoa mass*+, raw cane sugar*+, cocoa butter*+, candied ginger* (ginger*, raw cane sugar*), turmeric*+, orange oil*, vanilla pods*+. + FAIR TRADE CERTIFIED * ORGANIC MAY CONTAIN MILK, HAZELNUTS, ALMONDS AND PEANUTS.

What makes it processed

Culinary ingredients

Kitchen staples like sugar, salt and oil. On their own they make a food processed, not ultra-processed.

Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

Category rules

Open Food Facts puts every product in this category in at least this group.

Chocolates Products in the category "Chocolates" are at least group 3.
Sweet snacks Products in the category "Sweet snacks" are at least group 3.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 400 dark chocolates

From least to most processed, this one ranks 121st. 69% of the dark 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 400 dark chocolates, least processed first

About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0872227000121, last edited 1 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 D (from A, best, to E).
General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.