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Bournville is India's most recognisable dark-chocolate bar, bought for its rich cocoa flavour and perceived 'healthier chocolate' positioning. Despite the 50% cocoa content, sugar is the first ingredient and added sugars account for 44.1g per 100g — delivering 18% of an adult's daily added-sugar RDA in a single 20g square. Saturated fat is very high at 23g/100g, and the product is ultra-processed (NOVA 4) due to two industrial emulsifiers — ammonium phosphatides (E442) and PGPR (E476) — plus nature-identical flavouring substances. The most useful thing a consumer should know is that the 'dark chocolate' framing suggests a health halo that the nutrition profile does not support: this is a high-sugar, high-saturated-fat confectionery with a meaningful cocoa fraction, best treated as an occasional indulgence rather than a healthy snack.