Food · Mars
M&M's Milk Chocolate
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Weak nutrition · Ultra-processed · per 100 g
Weak nutrition and a factory recipe. Fine as a rare treat — not as a habit.
Worse than 10 in 10 packs in Snacks. The swap is on this aisle.
A 28 g handful is about 135 calories and 0 g of salt — before you finish the bag.
Council note
Ultra-processed — flavours, extras, a list a kitchen would not write. The colour (Tartrazine) is cosmetic, not food. A dietitian would not make this a weekday habit. Worse than 10 in 10 packs in Snacks. The swap is on this aisle.
Watch-outs
Artificial colours
Tartrazine, Sunset yellow FCF, Allura red AC
The pack
Weak nutrition and a factory recipe. Fine as a rare treat — not as a habit.
How often
Rarely
Who it’s for
Anyone comparing similar products in this aisle.
Skip if
It clashes with the notes you keep in your profile — allergens, diet, or extras you asked us to flag.
- A weak nutrition box cannot be rated Good
- Ultra-processed food cannot be rated Good
- A cluster of extras blocks Excellent or Good
At a glance
How often
Rarely
Nutrition box
Weak
How processed
Ultra-processed
Extras
4 additives
Planet
Mixed footprint · 52/100
Organic
Not organic
Built in a factory with additives, flavours, or refined extras. Cannot be rated Good — a rare treat, not a habit.
Some good signs, some industrial ones. Not the heaviest in the aisle.
No shelf price logged yet. When a shopper posts a receipt to Open Prices, it lands here.
Why this number
Weak nutrition and a factory recipe. Fine as a rare treat — not as a habit.
Poor · 25/100 · nutrition weak
- Nutrition quality19/100
- Ingredients50/100
- How processed16/100
- Organic0/100
What pulled it down
A weak nutrition box cannot be rated Good
Sugars, salt or saturated fat dominate this box. Poor at best — a treat, not a habit.
Ultra-processed food cannot be rated Good
A factory recipe — flavours, colours, or many additives — cannot be rated Good. A sometimes treat, not a daily habit.
A cluster of extras blocks Excellent or Good
A cluster of extras keeps this at Poor: a sometimes product, not a habit.
Two red lights on the box cannot be rated Good
Two red lights on salt, sugar or saturated fat keep this at Poor, not Good.
A weak nutrition box
About 16.3 teaspoons of sugar in 100 g. Fat is high. Sugars, salt or saturated fat dominate.
Ultra-processed
Built in a factory with additives, flavours, or refined extras. A growing pile of research ties a diet of these to poorer health — not because one biscuit is poison, but because the pattern crowds out real food.
Tartrazine
-14Azo dye linked to hyperactivity in sensitive children. EFSA ADI 7.5 mg/kg.
Sunset yellow FCF
-14Azo dye associated with hypersensitivity and hyperactivity.
Allura red AC
-14Widely used azo dye. Hyperactivity concern in children.
Azo dye mix
-83 synthetic colours (the Southampton six family) sit on this pack. Linked to hyperactivity in sensitive children.
Nutrition is half the number. Ingredients a quarter. How processed a fifth. Organic is a small bonus — it cannot rescue a sugary drink or a nitrite ham. How this compares to Nutri-Score
Nutrition · per 100 g
| Energy | 2010 kJ |
|---|---|
| Sugars | 65 gHigh Very sweet — about 16.3 teaspoons of sugar in 100 g. |
| Saturated fat | 12 gHigh |
| Salt | 0.1 gLow Light on salt. |
| Fibre | 2 g |
| Protein | 4 g |
Better neighbours
Same aisle, cleaner number. Ranked by how close the job is — not by who paid.
Ingredients
Milk chocolate, sugar, cocoa butter, milk, lactose, soy lecithin, blue 1, yellow 5, yellow 6, red 40.
TartrazineE102
−14Linked to restlessness in some children. You don’t need yellow food to be yellow.
Extra care for children
Sunset yellow FCFE110
−14Another dye tied to children’s behaviour in some studies.
Extra care for children
Allura red ACE129
−14Widely used, often flagged for children. You can live without red cereal.
Extra care for children
Sugar
Low concernNot a toxin. A teaspoon is a teaspoon. The issue is how many hide in drinks and breakfast.
Cocoa
No concernA keep. Fat content varies; the bar’s sugar is the usual snag.
Milk
No concernA staple for people who digest it. An allergen for people who don’t.
LecithinE322
No concernGenerally fine. Soy lecithin can matter if you are highly soy-allergic.
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