Chocolate Dessert Cake

Why Does This Score Ultra-Processed?

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

• Corn-Based Sweeteners (Corn Syrup): HFCS is a hallmark of ultra-processed foods.
• Processed Fruit Products (Cocoa Processed With Alkali): Concentrates and extracts indicate significant processing.
• Stabilizers & Gums (Carrageenan, Cellulose Gel, Cellulose Gum, +2 more): Industrial stabilizers common in UPF.
• Emulsifiers (Glycerin): Industrial emulsifiers indicate UPF.

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 Dessert Cake'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: Sugar, Invert Sugar, Semisweet Chocolate Curls (Sugar, Unsweetened Chocolate, Cocoa Butter, Butteroil, Soy Lecithin, Natural Flavor), Dark Chocolate Flavored Drizzle (Sugar, Hydrogenated Palm Kernel Oil, Cocoa Processed With Alkali, Buttermilk, Cocoa Powder, Butteroil, Hydrogenated Palm Oil, Sorbitan Monostearate, Soy Lecithin, Polysorbate 60, Natural And Artificial Flavor), and 1 more.

Natural sugars acceptable in moderation, excessive amounts indicate UPF.

Vegetable OilsProcessing indicator

In this product: Palm Oil, Soybean Oil, Canola Oil.

Natural oils are minimally processed, hydrogenated oils indicate UPF.

Food AcidsProcessing indicator

In this product: Citric Acid.

Common in both traditional and industrial foods.