Snow-Flake Decorated with Chocolate Icing, Chocolate

Why Does This Score Highly Processed?

In our analysis, Snow-Flake Decorated with Chocolate Icing, Chocolate scores Highly Processed. That classification is shaped by ingredients commonly associated with ultra-processed foods:

• Modified Fats (Partly Hydrogenated Palm Fat): Hydrogenation and modification are UPF markers.
• Processed Fruit Products (Low Fat Cocoa Powder): Concentrates and extracts indicate significant processing.
• Emulsifiers (Emulsifiers: Lecithins (Soy), Mono- And Diglycerides Of Fatty Acids): Industrial emulsifiers indicate UPF.
• Natural Flavors (Vanillin; Salt; Colour: Carotenes): Despite being natural, these are highly processed extracts.

Within Cookies & Crackers, this product is more processed than about 17% 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 Snow-Flake Decorated with Chocolate Icing, Chocolate'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, Glucose-Fructose Syrup.

Natural sugars acceptable in moderation, excessive amounts indicate UPF.

Vegetable OilsProcessing indicator

In this product: Palm Fat.

Natural oils are minimally processed, hydrogenated oils indicate UPF.