Ultimate Peanut Butter Cookies

Why Does This Score Ultra-Processed?

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

• Corn-Based Sweeteners (High Fructose Corn Syrup): HFCS is a hallmark of ultra-processed foods.
• Other Additives (Monoglyceride): 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 Ultimate Peanut Butter Cookies' 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, Peanut Butter Flavored Drops (Hydrogenated Palm Kernel Oil, Sugar, Non - Fat Dry Milk Solids, Peanut Butter [Peanuts, Hydrogenated Rapeseed And Cottonseed Oil], Corn Syrup Solids, Partially Defatted Peanut Flour, Soy Lecithin [An Emulsifier], Salt), Peanut Butter (Peanuts, Dextrose, Fully Hydrogenated Vegetable Oils [Cottonseed, Soybean, Rapeseed], And Salt), Molasses.

Natural sugars acceptable in moderation, excessive amounts indicate UPF.

Salt & SodiumProcessing indicator

In this product: Salt.

Basic preservative, but high amounts indicate processing.

Food Bases & AlkalisProcessing indicator

In this product: Baking Soda.

Common in baking, excessive use indicates processing.