Esther Price, Sugar Free Milk & Dark Assortment Chocolates
Esther Price, Sugar Free Milk & Dark Assortment Chocolates by Esther Price Candies Corp. has 9 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 4.2 out of 5, in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
- Safety score in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
- NOVA processing classification: group 4
Snacks / Sweet snacks / Confectioneries
How This Score Is Built
This 1-5 scale is an editorially-derived index, not an official government rating -- it synthesizes FDA status, EU regulatory status, US state actions, and published research. For Esther Price, Sugar Free Milk & Dark Assortment Chocolates, 9 of its 9 tracked ingredients carry a scored rating so far, current as of 2026-09-07.
Data draws on Open Food Facts, FDA, and EU regulatory records -- cross-check with the FDA → directly, or read how we score it.
Where Esther Price, Sugar Free Milk & Dark Assortment Chocolates sits nationally
Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients
4.2 Top 40% higher than 60% of 58,710 scored products
Average ingredient safety score (1 = highest risk, 5 = safest), bucketed by value
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Source PlainIngredients ingredient safety index · 2026-09-07
Ingredient Safety Breakdown
Processing Level
Ultra-processed products are formulations made mostly or entirely from substances derived from foods and additives. They typically contain ingredients not commonly used in home cooking.
Full Ingredients List
Maltitol syrup, maltitol, chocolate liquor (processed with alkali), cocoa butter, sorbitol, pecans, milk, coconut (with sodium metabisulfite for color retention), milkfat, calcium caseinate (milk), butter (milk), light cream (milk), polydextrose, contains 1% or less of the following: cherries (preserved with potassium sorbate, sodium benzoate, sulfur dioxide), hydrogenated palm kernel oil, natural and artificial flavors, xylitol, food starch modified, soy lecithin (an emulsifier), lactitol, whey protein (milk), pectin, partially hydrogenated palm oil, egg white (with sodium laurel sulfate), cocoa powder, fish gelatin, citric acid, potassium acetate, milkfat, milk protein isolate (milk), inulin, red #40, blue #1, sucralose and acesulfame-k (non-nutritive sweeteners).
Compare beyond brand
Nationwide peers by additive safety & ingredient depth
Two PlainIngredients-derived comparison paths for Esther Price, Sugar Free Milk & Dark Assortment Chocolates: nearest mean mapped additive safety score and nearest mapped ingredient count among indexable products with at least 3 scored additives, excluding same-brand siblings. Scores describe regulatory and research signals on additives, not dietary advice.
Similar mean additive safety
Nearest products by average mapped safety score. This record: 4.2/5.
Similar mapped ingredient depth
Nearest products by count of scored mapped additives. This record: 9.
Product Details
- Barcode
- 0014452004110
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
How does Esther Price, Sugar Free Milk & Dark Assortment Chocolates's safety score compare to other products?
Among the 58,710 PlainIngredients products with a scored ingredient list, Esther Price, Sugar Free Milk & Dark Assortment Chocolates's 4.2/5 average puts it in the safer 60%, in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
What does a 4.2/5 ingredient safety score mean?
The 1-5 scale (5 safest) comes from FDA and EU regulatory status per ingredient. Esther Price, Sugar Free Milk & Dark Assortment Chocolates's mapped ingredients average out to 4.2/5, which is the Low Risk tier.
Every figure on PlainIngredients is rendered directly from FDA, EU, EFSA and U.S. state regulatory records, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.