Food ingredient · Chocolate

Milk chocolate (ingredient)

Milk chocolate used as an ingredient; it contains sugar.

  • Added sugar or syrup
  • Expert review pending

Concern level

Moderate concern Level 2 of 4 How concern levels work

Strong evidence of harm at high intake, emerging evidence of harm, or a common allergen or irritant. The concern level sets how many points milk chocolate (ingredient) costs on a product’s receipt.

What the evidence says

  • Added sugarStrong evidence

    Contains added sugar. [1]

Evidence tiers say how sure the evidence is, separately from how much it matters. About evidence tiers.

Popular products that list milk chocolate (ingredient)

139 of the 17,000 most-scanned products in the US with a GoodSwap page list milk chocolate (ingredient). The 12 most scanned:

Diets and allergens

Vegan
No
Vegetarian
Yes
Gluten-free
Yes
Allergen
Milk

For the ingredient in general. Always check the package: a product’s own labels win.

Names GoodSwap recognizes on labels (8)
  • milk chocolate
  • milk chocolate chips
  • milk chocolate chunks
  • milk chocolate pieces
  • milk chocolate coating
  • milk chocolate ingredient
  • milk chocolate compound coating
  • milk chocolate flavored coating

Sources

  1. Guideline: sugars intake for adults and children

    World Health Organization · Mar 4, 2015 · Agency assessment

    “In both adults and children, WHO recommends reducing the intake of free sugars to less than 10% of total energy intake”

    who.int