Daystar Desserts, Peanut Butter Blast

Why Does This Score Ultra-Processed?

In our analysis, Daystar Desserts, Peanut Butter Blast scores Ultra-Processed. That classification is shaped by ingredients commonly associated with ultra-processed foods:

• Corn-Based Sweeteners (Glucose, Corn Syrup): HFCS is a hallmark of ultra-processed foods.
• Stabilizers & Gums (Cream Cheese (Pasteurized Milk And Cream, Cheese Culture, Salt, Stabilizers (Carob Bean And/Or Xanthan And/Or Guar Gums), Water, Whey Protein Concentrate, Modified Food Starch, Salt, Cream, Lactic Acid, Milk, Potassium Sorbate, Xanthan Gum, Cheese Culture, Natural Flavor, Enzymes)): Industrial stabilizers common in UPF.
• Natural Flavors (Vanilla): Despite being natural, these are highly processed extracts.
• Processed Fruit Products (Black Cocoa): Concentrates and extracts indicate significant processing.
• Emulsifiers (Soy Lecithin): 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 Daystar Desserts, Peanut Butter Blast'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, Peanut Butter (Roasted Peanuts, Sugar, Partially Hydrogenated Vegetable Oils (Cottonseed, Rapeseed And Soybean), Salt), Chocolate (Sugar, Partially Hydrogenated Palm Kernel Oil, Cocoa Processed With Alkali, Buttermilk, Cocoa, Milkfat, Hydrogenated Palm Oil, Sorbitan Monostearate And Soya Lecithin And Polysorbate-60, Natural And Artificial Flavors), Chocolate Decoration (Sugar, Cocoa Mass, Cocoa Butter, Butter Milk, Soya Lecithin, Vanilla).

Natural sugars acceptable in moderation, excessive amounts indicate UPF.

Synthetic VitaminsProcessing indicator

In this product: Chocolate Cookie Crumb (Enriched Flour (Wheat Flour, Niacin, Reduced Iron, Thiamine Mononitrate, Riboflavin, Folic Acid), Sugar, Canola Oil, Cocoa Processed With Alkali, Salt, Sodium Bicarbonate).

Fortification often compensates for processing losses.

Vegetable OilsProcessing indicator

In this product: Margarine (Palm Oil, Water, Salt, Mono And Diglycerides, Artificial Flavor, Colored With Annatto, Calcium Disodium Edta, Vitamin A Palmitate Added).

Natural oils are minimally processed, hydrogenated oils indicate UPF.