Spring Frosted Cookies, Spring

Why Does This Score Ultra-Processed?

In our analysis, Spring Frosted Cookies, Spring scores Ultra-Processed. That classification is shaped by ingredients commonly associated with ultra-processed foods:

• Artificial Colors (Frosting Colored With Yellow 5 And Carmine): Synthetic colors are definitive UPF markers.
• Other Additives (Emulsifier (Propylene Glycol Mono-And Diesters Of Fats And Fatty Acids, Mono-And Diglycerides, Soy Lecithin, Citryc Acid)): Miscellaneous additives generally indicate processing.

Within Cookies & Crackers, this product is more processed than about 51% of the 18,630 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 Spring Frosted Cookies, Spring'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, Decorations (Sugar, Rice Flour, Palm & Palm Kernel Oil, Gum Arabic, Xanthan Gum, Mono-Diglycerides, Soy Lecithin, Polysorbate 60, Carnauba Wax, Confectioner'S Glaze, Dextrin, Vanillin, Titanium Dioxide, Yellow 5 Lake, Yellow 6 Lake, Blue 1 Lake, Red 3, Blue 2, Red 40).

Natural sugars acceptable in moderation, excessive amounts indicate UPF.

Vegetable OilsProcessing indicator

In this product: Margarine (Palm Oil, Water, Soybean Oil, Salt, Mono-And Diglycerides, Artifical Butter Flavor, Calcium Disodium Edta [Preservative], Vitamin A Palmitate).

Natural oils are minimally processed, hydrogenated oils indicate UPF.

Food Bases & AlkalisProcessing indicator

In this product: Baking Powder (Corn Starch, Sodium Bicarbonate, Sodium Aluminum Sulfate, Monocalcium Phosphate).

Common in baking, excessive use indicates processing.