Kinder NOVA 4

Happy Hippo

Happy Hippo: 4/5 ingredient safety

Happy Hippo by Kinder has 1 tracked ingredient, with an overall safety score of 4 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

How This Score Is Built

PlainIngredients safety scores are a transparent, editorially-derived index synthesizing FDA status, EU regulatory status, US state actions, and published research into a single 1-5 scale, not an official government rating. 1 of 1 ingredient tracked for Happy Hippo has a scored rating so far. Data current as of 2026-09-07.

Sourced from Open Food Facts, FDA, and EU regulatory records. Verify with the FDA → See our full scoring methodology.

Where Happy Hippo sits nationally

Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients

4 Top 80% higher than 20% 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

4
Low Risk
Average ingredient safety: 4 out of 5
Based on 1 tracked ingredient
1
Tracked Ingredients
0
Concerning
1
Low Risk / Safe
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Nutri-Score

Ingredient Safety Breakdown

Processing Level

4
NOVA Group 4
Ultra-processed foods

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

Sugar, vegetable fats (palm, shea), WHEAT flour, MILK powder (7.5%) fat-reduced cocoa powder (5%), skimmed MILK powder (4.5%), HAZELNUTS, whey powder (MILK), chocolate (sugar, cocoa mass, cocoa butter, emulsifier: lecithits (S0YA. vanillin), WHEAT starch, emutsifier: lecithins (SOYA), sunflower ol, whey proteits (MAC raising agents (ammonium bicarbonate, sodium bicarbonate), salt, vanillin Toa solids: 12%. Nutrition declaration per 100 g: energy 2471/593 kJ/kcal, fat 38.64 saturates 17.6 g, carbohydrate 53.6 g, of which sugars 45.1 g, protein 6.7 g For More Information Visit: www.kinder.com or contact us on 00 44 330S 23m

Product Details

Brand
Kinder
Barcode
0000840083624
NOVA Group
4 — Ultra-processed foods
Available In
United States

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Frequently asked questions

How does Happy Hippo's safety score compare to other products?

Among the 58,710 PlainIngredients products with a scored ingredient list, Happy Hippo's 4/5 average puts it in the lower 80%, in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.

What's behind the 4/5 rating on Happy Hippo?

The 1-5 scale (5 safest) comes from FDA and EU regulatory status per ingredient. Happy Hippo's mapped ingredients average out to 4/5, 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.