Chocolate Meringue Dessert
Processing
4
Ultra-processed
Group 4 of 4 on the NOVA scale
Additives listed
7
0 we grade moderate or higher
6 of them not yet assessed here
Sugars per 100g
31.60g
High
UK FSA front of pack threshold
Three separate readings, kept apart on purpose. This is not a score, and none of it says this product is harmful.
Additives (7)
This label lists 2 emulsifiers, 2 thickeners and gelling agents, 1 colour, 1 additive and 1 raising agent.
E471
Mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids
Emulsifier
What it is. Fat derived emulsifiers, closely related to ordinary dietary fats.
Why it is used. One of the most used additives in food: bread, margarine, ice cream, cakes and sauces.
What the evidence says. The body handles these much as it handles other fats, and EFSA's re-evaluation raised no safety concern at the levels used. They sit in the same broad emulsifier and gut microbiome research question as the others, which remains unsettled.
Permitted without a numerical limit. The fat source is not always stated, which matters for some diets rather than for safety.
Assessed against EFSA. Full entry for E471
Also on the label, not assessed here yet
- E150A Plain caramel colour
- E401 Sodium alginate thickener
- E440 Pectin thickener
- E450 Diphosphates raising agent
- E472B Lactic acid esters of mono- and diglycerides emulsifier
- E516 Calcium sulphate other
Names and jobs come from the register of additives permitted in Great Britain, which we have not finished transcribing: a code shown without a name is a gap in our coverage, not a finding that it is unapproved. Naming one is not grading it either. Full detail appears only where we have an assessment against a named authority, so all of this describes our coverage rather than these additives. Most are common and low concern.
Ingredients
Sugar, Skimmed Milk, Double Cream (Milk), Whipping Cream (Milk), Cocoa Mass, Rapeseed Oil, Golden Syrup (Invert Sugar Syrup), Pasteurised Egg White, Water, Palm Kernel Oil, Cornflour, Whole Milk Butter (Milk), Cocoa Butter, Fat Reduced Cocoa Powder, Dried Whole Milk, Milk Protein, Dried Glucose Syrup, Emulsifier (E472b Soya Lecithin, E471), Dried Whey (Milk), Stabiliser (Pectin, E516, E450), Dried Skimmed Milk, Salt, Natural Colour (Plain Caramel, B-carotenes), Natural Flavourings, Whey Protein (Milk), Gelling Agent: E401, Dextrose, Wheatflour, Glucose Syrup, Partially Inverted Sugar Syrup, Lactose (Milk).
As printed on the pack, in the producer's own order: ingredients are listed by weight, so what comes first is most of what is in it. E numbers link to their assessment where we have one.