Peppermint Bark Cream Puffs

Why Does This Score Ultra-Processed?

In our analysis, Peppermint Bark Cream Puffs scores Ultra-Processed. That classification is shaped by ingredients commonly associated with ultra-processed foods:

• Processed Fruit Products (Cocoa Powder Coca Powder Processed With Alkali): Concentrates and extracts indicate significant processing.
• Emulsifiers (Soy Lecithin): Industrial emulsifiers indicate UPF.
• Natural Flavors (Vanilla Extract): Despite being natural, these are highly processed extracts.

Within Ice Cream & Frozen Desserts, this product is more processed than about 38% of the 14,928 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 Peppermint Bark Cream Puffs' 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: Peppermint Bark Sauce (Sugar, Sweetened Condensed Skim Milk, Water, Nonfat Milk, Natural Flavors, Cocoa Butter, Salt, Mono- And Diglycerides, Potassium Sorbate [Preservative], Soy Lecithin, Carrageenan Gum), Stabilizer (Sugar, Modified Potato Starch, Carboxy Methyl Cellulose, Natural Vanilla Flavor), Crushed Peppermint (Sugar, Corn Syrup, Beet Juice And Carmine [For Color], Palm Oil, Peppermint Oil), Sugar.

Natural sugars acceptable in moderation, excessive amounts indicate UPF.

Vegetable OilsProcessing indicator

In this product: Vegetable Oil (Coconut, Palm Kernel And/ Or Soybean Oil), Palm Oil.

Natural oils are minimally processed, hydrogenated oils indicate UPF.