Peppermint Premium Hot Cocoa Chocolate, Peppermint

Why Does This Score Ultra-Processed?

In our analysis, Peppermint Premium Hot Cocoa Chocolate, Peppermint scores Ultra-Processed. That classification is shaped by ingredients commonly associated with ultra-processed foods:

• Processed Fruit Products (Cocoa - Processed With Alkali): Concentrates and extracts indicate significant processing.
• Stabilizers & Gums (Cellulose Gum, Guar Gum): Industrial stabilizers common in UPF.

Within Drink Mixes, this product is more processed than about 51% of the 4,985 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 Premium Hot Cocoa Chocolate, Peppermint'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, Creamer (Coconut Oil, Corn Syrup Solids, Sodium Caseinate - A Milk Derivative, Mono And Diglycerides, Dipotassium Phosphate, Silicon Dioxide - To Prevent Caking).

Natural sugars acceptable in moderation, excessive amounts indicate UPF.

Salt & SodiumProcessing indicator

In this product: Salt.

Basic preservative, but high amounts indicate processing.

Anti-Caking AgentsProcessing indicator

In this product: Silicon Dioxide - To Prevent Caking.

Common in powdered processed foods.