At Easter, biting into chocolate eggs – a nod to pagan times – is a common practice in the UK over Easter, despite the weekend’s association with the Christian church. Consuming vast quantities of chocolate is never healthy, yet with lots of sweets being shared around, which are this Easter’s unhealthiest chocolate eggs? The answer is with new nutritional analysis.
Conducted by Fruity King, a survey has examined the sugar and calorie content of 175 chocolate eggs from popular supermarket shelves. By comparing nutritional per 100 grams and calculating totals for whole chocolate eggs, the products were ranked based on their health impact.
This reveals that the Skittles Milk Chocolate Easter Egg has the highest sugar content, with 74 grams of sugar per 100 grams of chocolate. A single 45g serving exceeds the recommended daily sugar intake by 10%, containing 33 grams of sugar. Eating the entire chocolate egg in one sitting would be equivalent to consuming 39 teaspoons of sugar.
The top ten ‘least healthy’ Easter indulgences are (Unhealthiest Chocolate Easter Eggs, Ranked by Sugar Content):
Skittles Milk Chocolate Easter Egg
Milky Way Chocolate Easter Egg
Cadbury Caramilk Chocolate Easter Egg
Cadbury White Chocolate Buttons Egg
Smarties Chocolate Egg
Maltesers White Chocolate Mini Bunnies Easter Egg
M&S Mint Choccy Egg
Terry’s White Chocolate Orange Easter Egg
Mars Milk Chocolate Easter Egg
Smarties Mini Eggs Milk Chocolate Incredible Egg
Kit Kat Chunky Easter Egg
Munchies Milk Chocolate Easter Egg
The study looked at 175 chocolate Easter eggs found on supermarket shelves, all of which were available in Spring 2025. It gathered data on the sugar content and calorie count per 100 grams for each egg, then calculated the sugar and calorie levels by whole egg.
If the entire egg is eaten, the Milky Way Easter Egg delivers up to 118 grams of sugar, with 64 grams per 100 grams of chocolate. That’s just 1 gram more than the Cadbury Caramilk and Cadbury White Chocolate Buttons Easter Eggs, which both rank third with 63 grams of sugar per 100 grams. Popular favourites also make the top five sweetest eggs, with the Smarties Chocolate Egg containing 62.5 grams of sugar and the Maltesers White Chocolate Mini Bunnies Easter Egg just behind at 62 grams.
Finishing off the top ten sweetest Easter eggs, the M&S Mint Choccy Egg contains 61.3 grams of sugar per 100 grams, followed by the Terry’s White Chocolate Orange Easter Egg and the Mars Milk Chocolate Easter Egg, both at 61 grams. At the bottom of the rankings is the Smarties Mini Eggs Milk Chocolate Incredible Egg with 60.5 grams, the Kit Kat Chunky Easter Egg at 60.4 grams, and the Munchies Milk Chocolate Easter Egg with 60.3 grams of sugar.
The Chocolate Eggs with Most Calories
The chocolate egg with the most calories, with 625 calories per 100 grams, is the Ferrero Rocher Golden Easter Egg. If you eat the whole egg, you’re looking at 1,563 calories, which is 78% of your recommended daily intake. It also has 46.4 grams of fat per 100 grams, including 22.3 grams of saturated fat.
Unhealthiest Chocolate Easter Eggs, Ranked by Calories are:
Ferrero Rocher Golden Easter Egg
M&S Collection Extra Thick Pistachio and Milk Chocolate Egg
Waitrose’s Cracking Pistachio Easter Egg
Raffaello White Chocolate Easter Egg with Pralines
Hotel Chocolat 36% White Chocolate Egg
M&S Outrageously Chocolatey Custard Cream Biscuity Egg
Hotel Chocolat 70% Dark Chocolate Egg
Waitrose’s Chocolate Croissant Easter Egg
M&S Collection Blond Egg with Salted Caramel Truffle
Kinder Surprise Milk Chocolate Easter Egg
Weighing in at nearly 3,000 calories for the 485 gram egg, the M&S Collection Extra Thick Pistachio and Milk Chocolate Egg comes in second, with 605 calories per 100 grams. Close behind is the viral Cracking Pistachio Easter Egg from Waitrose, with 602 calories per 100 grams, or 193 calories per serving.
The Raffaello White Chocolate Easter Egg with Pralines has 599 calories per 100 grams, while Hotel Chocolat’s 36% White Chocolate Egg has just one less, at 598 calories per 100 grams.
The M&S Outrageously Chocolatey Custard Cream Biscuity Egg comes in sixth, with 590 calories per 100 grams, followed by the Hotel Chocolat 70% Dark Chocolate Egg at 586 calories. Waitrose’s Chocolate Croissant Easter Egg has 584 calories, while the M&S Collection Blond Egg with Salted Caramel Truffle contains 581 calories. The Kinder Surprise Milk Chocolate Easter Egg rounds out the list with 579 calories.
