Hershey Nutri-Score E NOVA 4

Kit Kat DUOS Mint Dark Chocolate

Kit Kat DUOS Mint Dark Chocolate: 4/5 ingredient safety

Kit Kat DUOS Mint Dark Chocolate by Hershey has 2 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 4 out of 5, in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products. Its Nutri-Score is E.

  • Safety score in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
  • NOVA processing classification: group 4

Snacks / Sweet snacks / Cocoa and its products / Confectioneries / Chocolate candies / Bars / Candy chocolate bars / Chocolate-candy-bar

How This Score Is Built

Kit Kat DUOS Mint Dark Chocolate draws on FDA status, EU regulatory status, US state actions, and published research, combined into a single editorially-derived 1-5 scale (never an official government rating). 2 of its 2 tracked ingredients are scored so far; data as of 2026-09-07.

Open Food Facts, FDA, and EU regulatory records feed this score. The FDA site → has the primary record; our methodology page explains the scoring.

Where Kit Kat DUOS Mint Dark Chocolate 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 2 tracked ingredients
2
Tracked Ingredients
0
Concerning
2
Low Risk / Safe
E
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 oil [palm oil, shea oil, sunflower oil, palm kernel oil, and/or safflower oil], wheat flour, chocolate, skim milk, corn syrup solids, cocoa butter, lactose (milk), contains 2% or less of: cocoa processed with alkali, milk fat, lecithin (soy), oil of peppermint, pgpr, artificial color [yellow 5 lake, blue 1 lake], salt, yeast, vanillin, artificial flavor, baking soda.

Product Details

Brand
Hershey
Barcode
0034000318261
Nutri-Score
Grade E
NOVA Group
4 — Ultra-processed foods
Available In
United States

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Frequently asked questions

Where does Kit Kat DUOS Mint Dark Chocolate rank on ingredient safety?

Kit Kat DUOS Mint Dark Chocolate scores 4 out of 5 for average ingredient safety, in the bottom 80% of the 58,710 products in PlainIngredients with a scored ingredient list, in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.

How should Kit Kat DUOS Mint Dark Chocolate's 4/5 score be read?

PlainIngredients scores each ingredient 1 (highest risk) to 5 (safest) from FDA and EU regulatory status, then averages the scores of every ingredient this product lists that we could map. A 4/5 average places Kit Kat DUOS Mint Dark Chocolate in 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.