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Chocolate spread: what's actually in it?

The short answer: sugar first, oil second, in almost every jar — hazelnuts and cocoa come third and fourth at best. The real differences are which oil, how much hazelnut, and whether the jar is a hazelnut spread at all or a plain chocolate spread with no nuts. A jar that says "chocolate" on the front can contain no hazelnuts whatsoever, and a jar that says "hazelnut" can still be mostly sugar and palm oil.

This page does not give a health score or a ranking, and does not pick a "best" spread. It shows the ingredient list as printed, flags sugar position, palm oil position and nut content, and explains the jargon in plain English.

The headline, in 30 seconds

Nutella is sugar, palm oil, hazelnuts (13%), skimmed milk powder (8.7%), fat-reduced cocoa (7.4%)… — sugar first, palm oil second, in every regional list checked. Hazelnuts are third, not first.
Hershey's Chocolate Spread has no hazelnuts at all: sugar, vegetable oil (sunflower and palm oil), nonfat milk, cocoa processed with alkali, cocoa… — a chocolate spread, not a hazelnut spread.
Cadbury Milk Chocolate Spread is also sugar first, oil second — but its oil is a rapeseed + palm blend, and its chocolate character comes from milk chocolate crumb (7%) plus full cream milk powder (7%) and fat-reduced cocoa (5.5%), not from hazelnuts.
Ovomaltine Crunchy Cream is the palm-oil split to watch: newer listings say palm-oil-free (Swiss rapeseed oil instead), older listings say vegetable oils (rapeseed and palm). Both versions are quoted in the research notes — the jar you buy decides which is true, so check the pack.
Position matters more than presence. "Contains palm oil" is true of Nutella, Hershey's and Cadbury here; what differs is whether palm oil is second (Nutella), part of a second-place oil blend (Hershey's, Cadbury), or absent in the current Ovomaltine version.
Re-audit 5 Nov 2026 — Milka is now panelled, flagged. Milka Hazelnut Cream Spread is sold in Singapore via MezeHub (import grocer, 350 g), with sugar first, sunflower oil 28% second and only 5% hazelnut mass — and no palm oil in the list. An Austrian-market variant lists rapeseed oil instead of sunflower oil, so the SG pack must be checked before publish. Rigoni di Asiago Nocciolata: no SG listing was found in this pass.

At a glance

Product	1st / 2nd ingredient	Hazelnut?	Cocoa	Palm oil position	Pack size (as printed)	Country of manufacture (as printed)
Nutella (Ferrero)	Sugar / palm oil	13% (3rd)	7.4% fat-reduced cocoa	2nd, named	400g	Italy
Hershey's Spreads — Chocolate	Sugar / vegetable oil (sunflower + palm)	No	Cocoa + cocoa processed with alkali	Inside 2nd-place oil blend	not stated	USA
Hershey's Spread — Cookies (India variant)	Sugar / edible vegetable oil (palm superolein)	No (cookies 8%)	Cocoa solids 5%	2nd, palm superolein	not stated	India
Cadbury Milk Chocolate Spread	Sugar / vegetable oil (rapeseed, palm)	No	5.5% fat-reduced cocoa + 7% milk chocolate crumb	Inside 2nd-place oil blend	400g	UK
Cadbury Crunchie Chocolate Spread	Sugar / vegetable oil (rapeseed, palm)	No	5% fat-reduced cocoa + 6% milk chocolate crumb	Inside 2nd-place oil blend	400g	UK
Ovomaltine Crunchy Cream (current, palm-oil-free listing)	33% malt drink powder / sugar, then rapeseed oil	Yes (amount not stated in list)	Low-fat cocoa in malt powder + 0.4% low-fat cocoa	Absent in current listing; present in older listing — see panel	380g (240g / 360g / 400g also listed)	Switzerland
Milka Hazelnut Cream Spread (MezeHub SG import)	Sugar / sunflower oil (28%)	5% hazelnut mass	Low-fat cocoa powder	Absent in this list (no palm oil listed)	350g	Germany

Prices are deliberately not shown here: they change weekly and would go stale. This site compares ingredients only.

Panelled products

Nutella — Hazelnut Spread with Cocoa (Ferrero)

Pack size: 400g · Made in: Italy (as printed)

Ingredients: Sugar, Palm Oil, Hazelnuts (13%), Skimmed Milk Powder (8.7%), Fat-Reduced Cocoa (7.4%), Emulsifier: Lecithins (Soya), Vanillin.

Official Nutella site (UK) gives the same 7-ingredient list, with the same percentages. Some older/other-market lists add whey powder and give skimmed milk powder as 6.6% instead of 8.7% — a regional formulation difference, flagged here, not merged. Allergens: hazelnut, milk, soya Sugar: 1st Palm oil: 2nd

Hershey's Spreads — Chocolate

Pack size: not stated · Made in: USA (as printed)

Ingredients: Sugar, Vegetable Oil (Sunflower and Palm Oil), Nonfat Milk, Cocoa Processed With Alkali, Cocoa, Contains 2% or Less of: Milk, Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil (Palm and Canola Oil), Soy Lecithin, Salt, Natural Vanilla Flavor.

No hazelnuts, no nut ingredient at all in this list — this is the plain-chocolate-spread comparator. Note the second hydrogenated oil entry in the under-2% group, in addition to the main vegetable oil. Allergens: milk, soya Sugar: 1st

Hershey's Spread — Cookies (India-market variant, flagged)

Pack size: not stated · Made in: India (as printed)

Ingredients: Sugar, Edible Vegetable Oil (Palm Superolein), Milk Solids, Cookies (8%) {Refined Wheat Flour, Sugar, Edible Vegetable Oil (Palm Oil), Cocoa Solids (0.8%), Emulsifier (322(i)), Acidity Regulator (500 ii)}, Cocoa Solids (5%), Emulsifier (322(i)), Hydrogenated Vegetable Fat (Palm Oil & Sesame Oil), Iodized Salt and Flavour (Artificial flavouring substance — Vanilla). Contains: Milk and Soy. May contain: Tree Nuts and Wheat.

Panelled as a separate variant because the SG shelf carries multiple Hershey's spread variants; this India-market list is not assumed to be the SG jar — verify the SG Hershey's Cookies jar before publish. ⚠️ Non-SG variant — verify SG pack

Cadbury Milk Chocolate Spread

Pack size: 400g · Made in: UK (as printed)

Ingredients: Sugar, Vegetable Oil (Rapeseed, Palm), Lactose (Milk), Milk Chocolate Crumb (7%) (Milk, Sugar, Cocoa Mass), Full Cream Milk Powder (7%), Fat Reduced Cocoa (5.5%), Whey Powder (Milk), Emulsifier: Lecithins, Flavouring.

Contains milk; may contain nuts (brand allergen note) — but no nut ingredient is listed. The rapeseed/palm split inside the oil blend is not stated in this list. Allergen: milk Sugar: 1st

Cadbury Crunchie Chocolate Spread

Pack size: 400g · Made in: UK (as printed)

Ingredients: Sugar, Vegetable Oil (Rapeseed, Palm), Honeycomb Crisp (Sugar, Glucose Syrup, Invert Sugar, Sodium Bicarbonate) 10%, Milk Chocolate Crumb (Milk, Sugar, Cocoa Mass) 6%, Full Cream Milk Powder 6%, Fat Reduced Cocoa 5%, Whey Powder (Milk) (2%), Emulsifier (Sunflower Lecithin), Honeycomb Flavouring, Flavouring.

Same sugar/oil start as Cadbury Milk, plus 10% honeycomb crisp — which itself contains three more sweeteners (sugar, glucose syrup, invert sugar). Allergen: milk Sugar: 1st (+ honeycomb sugars)

Ovomaltine Crunchy Cream — palm-oil-free listing (current) vs older listing

Pack size: 380g (240g / 360g / 400g also listed) · Made in: Switzerland (as printed)

Ingredients (current palm-oil-free listing): Barley malt and cocoa extract Ovomaltine 33% [barley malt extract (51%), skimmed condensed milk, concentrated whey (milk), low-fat cocoa powder (13%), sugar, fructose, mineral salts (magnesium carbonate, calcium phosphate), rapeseed oil, vitamins, salt, vanillin flavour], sugar, rapeseed oil, fully hydrogenated rapeseed oil, hazelnuts, emulsifiers (sunflower lecithin, mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids), calcium phosphate, low-fat cocoa powder (0.4%), antioxidants (ascorbyl palmitate, alpha-tocopherol), flavour: vanillin.

⚠️ Older listings give the same 33% malt powder but then "vegetable oils (rape and palm)" instead of rapeseed-only oils. Ovomaltine markets the current version as "without palm oil… instead of palm oil, high-quality Swiss rapeseed oil is used". The panel above is the current listing; an older jar on the shelf could still be the palm version — check the pack, and do not quote the palm-free claim for an older jar. Allergens: gluten (barley), milk (incl. lactose), hazelnuts; may contain almonds. Allergens: gluten, milk, hazelnut ⚠️ Version split — check pack

Milka Hazelnut Cream Spread — MezeHub SG import listing; SG pack to confirm

Pack size: 350g · Made in: Germany (as printed)

Ingredients: sugar, sunflower oil (28%), whey powder (from milk), hazelnut mass (5%), low fat cocoa powder, skimmed milk powder, cocoa butter, emulsifier (sunflower lecithins), salt, flavours. May contain wheat, other nuts, peanuts.

Sold in Singapore via MezeHub, a Singapore import grocer (350 g jar, sold out at check time). The list is the German/EU Open Food Facts listing for this product (barcode 7622201127206): sugar first, sunflower oil second at 28%, hazelnut mass only 5% — lower than Nutella's 13%. Notably, this list contains no palm oil, unlike Nutella, Hershey's and Cadbury above. ⚠️ Flagged conflict: an Austrian-market variant lists rapeseed oil (25%) as the first oil instead of sunflower oil (28%) — do not merge the two lists; the SG pack must be checked to see which oil the imported jar uses. No Milka spread jar was found on Shopee SG in this pass (only Milka chocolate bars / hazelnut bars). Hazelnut: 5% Sugar: 1st No palm oil in this list Re-audit 5 Nov 2026

Seen but not verified — do not panel until checked

Chocotella and other EU hazelnut spreads (Donki / Meidi-Ya / Le Petit Depot / import shelves). Seen as a category on import shelves; no full verbatim SG-sold list retrieved in this pass for a specific SKU. (Milka is now panelled above — see the flagged re-audit panel.)
Nutella variants: Nutella & Go, Nutella B-ready, Nutella Biscuits. These are portion/snack formats, not the jar spread — excluded from the jar comparison, but noted so they are not mistaken for jar variants.
Hershey's Spreads — Hazelnut. No SG jar was found in this pass — Shopee SG searches returned only Hershey's waffles, Kisses and bars, no Hazelnut spread jar. A US list exists for reference only (Prospre/USDA: sugar, vegetable oils [sunflower and palm], skimmed milk powder, hazelnuts, cocoa powder, emulsifier: sunflower lecithin, natural flavors) but is not panelled as an SG product. Hershey's Spreads — Chocolate with Almond and the Caramel variant: US lists exist for caramel (sugar, vegetable oil [sunflower, palm], nonfat milk, cocoa…), but SG availability for each variant was not confirmed in this pass.
Little Farms — Almond Butter — Chocolate (250 g). Listed at Little Farms in the nut-butter range; no ingredient list retrieved. It is an almond-butter product, not necessarily a chocolate spread — do not panel it as one without its list.
FairPrice / Cold Storage / Giant / Sheng Siong house-brand chocolate spreads, and Shopee/Lazada parallel-import hazelnut spreads (e.g. Pax). No specific SKU with a verified list was retrieved in this pass; the house-brand shelf needs an in-store check. Rigoni di Asiago Nocciolata: no SG listing found in this pass (searched Shopee/Lazada/Little Farms Singapore) — overseas lists exist (Original: raw sugar, hazelnut paste 18%, sunflower seed oil, skimmed milk powder, low-fat cocoa powder 6%, shea butter, cocoa butter, emulsifier: soy lecithin, vanilla extract; Dairy-Free variant: organic cane sugar, organic hazelnut paste, organic sunflower oil, organic cocoa powder, organic cocoa butter, sunflower lecithin, organic vanilla extract) but are not panelled as SG products.
White chocolate spreads and duo (chocolate + milk) spreads. Seen as a format on import shelves; no specific SKU panelled here — a separate variant row if inventoried.

Nutrition — what the numbers say

All figures are as sold, per 100 g, except the Hershey's row, which is per serving only. Across the per-100 g rows, sugars run from 50.1 g (Ovomaltine, current official listing) to 57 g (Cadbury Crunchie), and sodium from 48 mg (Cadbury Milk, derived from printed salt 0.12 g) to 100 mg (Ovomaltine, older listings — see conflict note).

Salt = sodium × 2.5. Sodium is shown as printed; the salt equivalent is in brackets. Sodium is never presented as salt. Figures below are total sugars as printed on Singapore-style packs, not added sugars — the ingredient list on this page remains the evidence for added sugar versus naturally occurring sugars. No Nutri-Grade letter is quoted unless it was found printed on the pack or listing; none is assigned here, and no health score or verdict is given.

Product	Basis	Energy	Protein	Total fat	Saturated fat	Carbohydrate	Sugars	Sodium (salt equiv.)
Nutella (Ferrero)	Per 100 g, as sold	2,252 kJ / 539 kcal	6.3 g	30.9 g	10.6 g	57.5 g	56.3 g	42.8 mg (salt 0.107 g)
Hershey's Spreads — Chocolate	Per serving, not per 100 g — 2 tbsp (37 g) as printed	190 kcal	3 g	12 g	1 g	20 g	— (not stated in this source)	—
Cadbury Milk Chocolate Spread	Per 100 g, as sold	2,392 kJ / 574 kcal	3.9 g	38.0 g	8.7 g	54 g	53 g	48 mg (salt 0.12 g, as printed; sodium derived ÷ 2.5)
Cadbury Crunchie Chocolate Spread	Per 100 g, as sold	2,309 kJ / 554 kcal	3.4 g	34 g	7.8 g	58 g	57 g	52 mg (salt 0.13 g, as printed; sodium derived ÷ 2.5)
Ovomaltine Crunchy Cream (current official listing)	Per 100 g, as sold	547 kcal	—	32.4 g	5.5 g	59.4 g	50.1 g	—
Milka Hazelnut Cream Spread	Per 100 g, as sold (Open Food Facts, secondary — EU listing, SG pack to confirm)	2,316 kJ / 555 kcal	3.8 g	34 g	4.6 g	58 g	57 g	72 mg (salt 0.18 g; sodium derived ÷ 2.5)

— means not stated in the source found for that row, not zero. Per-serving rows are quoted exactly as printed and are not converted to per 100 g/ml. Where sources conflict, the conflict is flagged in the notes below and in the research notes, not silently resolved.

Conflicts and flags. Milka: an Austrian-market variant lists rapeseed oil (25%) as the first oil instead of sunflower oil (28%) — the two lists are not merged; the SG pack must be checked. Ovomaltine: older/retail listings give a different panel for what may be an earlier recipe — 545 kcal, fat 32 g, saturated fat 5 g in one listing and 7.1 g in another, carbohydrate 59.5 g, sugars 54.5 g, salt 0.25 g (sodium 100 mg). Those figures are not merged into the current official row; check the jar you buy. Hershey's: a second secondary source gives a different serving (one 22 g piece: 112.9 kcal, fat 7.1 g, saturated fat 0.3 g, carbohydrate 11.9 g, sugars 11.2 g, protein 1.8 g) — different serving, different saturated-fat figure, so it is not converted or merged here. Nutella: other Open Food Facts listings vary slightly (e.g. sugars 56 g, saturated fat 10 g, protein 8 g on one listing); the row above uses the manufacturer-supplied 400 g listing (sugars 56.3 g). All sugars here are total sugars as printed; they are not labelled added sugars.

Seen but not verified (nutrition) — do not use figures for these until checked from the pack:

Hershey's Spread — Cookies (India-market variant, flagged) — no nutrition panel verified for this variant; do not borrow the Chocolate variant's figures.

How to read a chocolate spread label — the jargon, in plain English

Hazelnut spread vs chocolate spread: A hazelnut spread lists hazelnuts as an ingredient (Nutella 13%, Ovomaltine — amount unstated in its list). A chocolate spread (Hershey's Chocolate, Cadbury Milk) lists cocoa/cocoa mass but no hazelnuts. The front word "chocolate" alone does not tell you which one it is.
Fat-reduced / low-fat cocoa: Cocoa powder with most of the cocoa butter removed. It gives chocolate flavour without the fat of full cocoa mass — it is not a lower-sugar ingredient.
Milk chocolate crumb: A Cadbury ingredient: milk, sugar and cocoa mass dried together. It counts as a chocolate ingredient, but it also brings its own sugar.
Palm oil vs palm superolein vs hydrogenated vegetable oil: Palm oil is the oil from the palm fruit; palm superolein is a fraction of palm oil that stays liquid. Hydrogenated vegetable oil has been hardened by hydrogenation — it appears as a separate under-2% ingredient in Hershey's, in addition to the main oil. "Vegetable oil (rapeseed, palm)" means a blend; the split is not stated unless the brand prints it.
Lecithin (soya / sunflower): An emulsifier that keeps oil and solids mixed so the spread does not separate. Soya lecithin brings a soya allergen note; sunflower lecithin does not.
Vanillin: A vanilla flavouring compound. It is not vanilla extract, and its presence does not mean vanilla pods were used.
Whey powder / skimmed milk powder / full cream milk powder: Dried milk ingredients. Skimmed = fat removed; full cream = fat kept; whey is the liquid left from cheesemaking, dried. All bring a milk allergen.

What this page is not

Not a health score, and not medical advice. Palm-oil and sugar-position notes describe the list order, not a verdict on any ingredient.
Not a taste test, and not a price comparison.
Not complete. Milka, house-brand and parallel-import spreads, and Hershey's other variants are not yet panelled, for the verification reasons given, not hidden.
Not a claim that UK/US/India lists match the Singapore jar — Nutella's 8.7% vs 6.6% milk-powder difference and Ovomaltine's palm split show why the SG pack must be checked before any publish step.

Sources and method

Checked 5–6 November 2026 from: Nutella official UK site and Open Food Facts; Hershey's USDA-derived lists (NutritionValue/Spoonful); Cadbury via Asda/Morrisons/Open Food Facts; Ovomaltine via Gourmet World/Epicerie Corner/Amazon.de listings (current vs older). Re-audit 5 Nov 2026 added: MezeHub SG listing for Milka Hazelnut Cream Spread 350 g and the Open Food Facts EU list (barcode 7622201127206) with its Austrian-variant oil conflict; Shopee SG searches for Milka spread jars (none found — bars only) and for Hershey's Hazelnut spread (no jar found); searches for Rigoni di Asiago Nocciolata SG listings (none found). Channels checked: FairPrice (incl. Online), Cold Storage, Giant, Sheng Siong, Don Don Donki, Mustafa, Meidi-Ya, Le Petit Depot, RedMart, Lazada, Shopee Singapore, Little Farms, plus re-audit channel MezeHub SG. Full per-fact source list is in the accompanying research notes.