Chocolate Covered Cheesecake Bites, Chocolate

Why Does This Score Ultra-Processed?

In our analysis, Chocolate Covered Cheesecake Bites, Chocolate scores Ultra-Processed. That classification is shaped by ingredients commonly associated with ultra-processed foods:

• Stabilizers & Gums (Cream Cheese (Pasteurized Cultured Milk And Cream, Salt, Stabilizers (Carob Bean And/Or Guar Gums)), Guar Gum, Carob Bean Gum): Industrial stabilizers common in UPF.
• Natural Flavors (Coffee, Natural Flavor, Vanilla Extract): Despite being natural, these are highly processed extracts.

Within Cakes & Pastries, this product is more processed than about 16% of the 11,919 products we've analyzed.

Processing classification reflects ingredient and additive analysis, not a judgment of any product's safety, quality, or healthfulness.

What These Ingredients Tell Us

We group Chocolate Covered Cheesecake Bites, Chocolate's ingredients into ingredient categories and note how each relates to food processing. The notes below describe the category, not this specific product's formulation.

Sugars & Natural SweetenersProcessing indicator

In this product: Dark Chocolate (Cane Sugar, Vegetable Oils (Palm Kernel, Palm), Cocoa (Processed With Alkali), Lactose (Milk), Sunflower Lecithin (An Emulsifier), Vanilla (Milk)), White Chocolate Compound (Sugar, Palm Kernel Oil, Nonfat Milk, Whole Milk, Whey, Palm Oil, Soy Lecithin, Vanilla), Cane Sugar.

Natural sugars acceptable in moderation, excessive amounts indicate UPF.

Salt & SodiumProcessing indicator

In this product: Salt.

Basic preservative, but high amounts indicate processing.