Dark Premium Assortment

What These Ingredients Tell Us

We group Dark Premium Assortment'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.

Corn-Based SweetenersStrong UPF marker

In this product: Corn Syrup Solids.

HFCS is a hallmark of ultra-processed foods.

Sugars & Natural SweetenersProcessing indicator

In this product: Dark Chocolate (Sugar, Chocolate Liquor [Processed With Alkali], Cocoa Butter, Milk Fat [Milk], Soy Lecithin Added As An Emulsifier And Natural Vanilla Flavor), Easy Fond (Sucrose And Invert Sugar), Sugar, Chocolate Coating (Sugar, Hydrogenated Palm Kernel Oil, Cocoa Powder, Whey Powder [Milk], Nonfat Milk Powder, Soy Lecithin Added As An Emulsifier And Natural Vanilla Flavor), and 1 more.

Natural sugars acceptable in moderation, excessive amounts indicate UPF.

Synthetic VitaminsProcessing indicator

In this product: Peanut Butter Shelled Peanuts, Sugar, Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil Rapeseed, Cottonseed & Soybean , Salt, Semisweet Chocolate Sugar, Unsweetened Chocolate, Cocoa Butter, Dextrose And Sunflower Lecithin , Butter Pasteurized Cream [Milk], Salt , Evaporated Milk Milk, Dipotassium Phosphate, Carrageenan, Vitamin D3 , Sugar Invert, Coconut Oil, Shortening Flakes Hydrogenated Palm Kernel Oil And Soy Lecithin , Milk Chocolate Sugar, Cocoa Butter, Whole Milk Powder, Chocolate Liquor, Soy Lecithin Added As An Emulsifier And Natural Vanilla Flavor , Green Coating Sugar, Palm Kernel And Palm Oils, Whey [Milk], Nonfat Milk, Added Color, Sunflower Lecithin, Natural Flavor And Vanilla , Pink Coating Sugar, Palm Kernel And Palm Oils, Whey [Milk], Nonfat Milk, Added Color, Sunflower Lecithin, Natural Flavor And Vanilla , White Pastel Coating Sugar, Palm Kernel And Palm Oils, Whey [Milk], Nonfat Milk, Titanium Dioxide Color, Sunflower Lecithin, Natural Flavor And Vanilla , Yellow Coating Sugar, Palm Kernel Oils, Whey [Milk], Nonfat Milk, Added Color, Sunflower Lecithin, Natural Flavor And Vanilla , White Coating Sugar, Hydrogenated Palm Kernel Oil, Nonfat Milk Powder, Soy Lecithin Added As An Emulsifier, Monogylcerides, Artificial Color [Titanium Dioxide]And Artificial Flavor , Binasol 15 Tapioca Flour , Salt, Invertase And Glycerol, Sea Salt, Pure Vanilla Extract Water, Alcohol, Vanilla Bean Extractives , Citric Acid, Natural And Artificial Flavors, Glycerine, Water, Propylene Glycol, Gum Tragacanth, Propylene Glycol Alginate, Sodium Benzoate As A Preservative, Red 40 And Blue 1, Lemon Mash Water, Natural And Artificial Flavors, Gum Tragacanth, Gum Arabic, Citric Acid, Sodium Benzoate And Fd&C Yellow 5 , Orange Flavoring Orange Juice Concentrate, Natural And Artificial Flavors, Water, Gum Tragacanth, Calcium Ascorbate, Sodium Benzoate, Citric Acid, Sodium Bisulfite, Tbhq And Fd&C Yellow 6 , Raspberry Flavoring Water, Sugar, Raspberry Juice Concentrate, Natural And Artificial Flavors, Tragacanth Gum, Citric Acid, Sodium Benzoate And Fd&C Blue 1 , Maple Flavoring Water, Caramel Color [Contains Sulfites], Natural And Artificial Flavors, Maple Syrup, Tragacanth Gum, Gum Arabic, Citric Acid, Sodium Benzoate And Caffeine , Salt Salt, Tricalcium Phosphate , Butter Flavor Propylene Glycol , Pure Peppermint Oil, Red Coloring Partially Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil [Cottonseed, Soybean], Fd&C Red 40 Lake [E129] , Yellow Coloring Soy Lecithin, Propylene Glycol, Fd&C Yellow 5 Lake [E102] , Orange Coloring Water, Fd&C Yellow 6 [E110], Propylene Glycol, Fd&C Red 40 [E129], Citric Acid, Sodium Benzoate [Preservative] , Coffee Flavoring Vegetable Oil And Fd&C Approved Colors , Natural Antioxidant Sweet Almond Oil And Natural Flavors , Partially Produced With Genetic Engineering.

Fortification often compensates for processing losses.