diff --git a/haystack/components/preprocessors/recursive_splitter.py b/haystack/components/preprocessors/recursive_splitter.py
index 19b420c059..9986654058 100644
--- a/haystack/components/preprocessors/recursive_splitter.py
+++ b/haystack/components/preprocessors/recursive_splitter.py
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ def _chunk_text(self, text: str) -> List[str]:
                 escaped_separator = re.escape(curr_separator)
                 splits = re.split(escaped_separator, text)
 
-            if len(splits) == 1:  # go to next separator, if current separator not found
+            if len(splits) == 1:  # go to next separator, if current separator not found in the text
                 continue
 
             chunks = []