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Yes — Kitkat is ultra-processed.
Not a great choice for everyday.
This chocolate-covered wafer is ultra-processed because it contains several industrial ingredients and additives: vegetable fats including palm and palm-kernel fats and specialty fats, lactose and proteins from whey, emulsifiers (sunflower lecithin and soya lecithin), butterfat, and natural flavourings. These ingredients are industrially processed formulations or additives characteristic of ultra-processed foods. The fortified wheat flour, sugar, cocoa ingredients, yeast, sodium bicarbonate, and salt do not independently determine the classification.
Other chocolate & sweets Nomi has checked — these ones aren't ultra-processed.
Milk Chocolate
Marks & Spencer
Not UPF
Simple Dark Chocolate
Hu
Not UPF
Original liquorice
Panda
Not UPF
Pure Fruit Paws Strawberry & Apple
Bear
Not UPF
Creamy Hazelnut Chocolate
Deliciously Ella
Not UPF
Velvety & intense dark chocolate
Deliciously Ella
Not UPF
Yoyos Apple
Bear, Bear Nibbles
Not UPF
Hazelnut Crunch Truffles
Booja-Booja
Not UPF
Montezuma Splotch Butterscotch milk chocolate
Montezuma's
Not UPF
Organic Dark Chocolate Belgian Thins
Kirkland
Not UPF
Yes — Kitkat by Nestlé is ultra-processed, so it counts as a UPF (ultra-processed food). This chocolate-covered wafer is ultra-processed because it contains several industrial ingredients and additives: vegetable fats including palm and palm-kernel fats and specialty fats, lactose and proteins from whey, emulsifiers (sunflower lecithin and soya lecithin), butterfat, and natural flavourings. These ingredients are industrially processed formulations or additives characteristic of ultra-processed foods. The fortified wheat flour, sugar, cocoa ingredients, yeast, sodium bicarbonate, and salt do not independently determine the classification.
Ultra-processed foods (UPFs) are industrial formulations made with ingredients and additives you wouldn't find in a home kitchen — such as emulsifiers, artificial flavourings, colourings and modified starches. The classification is based on the NOVA system used by researchers and dietitians worldwide.
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Product information comes from public databases and Nomi's own analysis, and may contain errors. Always check the packaging. Ultra-processed classification is based on the NOVA food processing system.