Vanilla Dark Chocolate Cookie Ice Cream Bars

Why Does This Score Highly Processed?

In our analysis, Vanilla Dark Chocolate Cookie Ice Cream Bars scores Highly 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.
• Emulsifiers (Soy Lecithin): Industrial emulsifiers indicate UPF.

Within Ice Cream & Frozen Desserts, this is among the less processed 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 Vanilla Dark Chocolate Cookie Ice Cream Bars' 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, Vanilla Extract. Dark Chocolate And Vegetable Oil Coating With Cookie Pieces: Dark Chocolate (Sugar, Chocolate, Soy Lecithin, Vanilla Extract), Cookie Pieces (Wheat Flour, Sugar, Soybean Oil, Soy Lecithin, Salt), Powdered Cane Sugar, and 1 more.

Natural sugars acceptable in moderation, excessive amounts indicate UPF.

Vegetable OilsProcessing indicator

In this product: Coconut Oil, Soybean Oil. Chocolate Cookie Swirl: Soybean Oil.

Natural oils are minimally processed, hydrogenated oils indicate UPF.

Salt & SodiumProcessing indicator

In this product: Salt.

Basic preservative, but high amounts indicate processing.