Is Bear Paws Chocolate Chip Soft Cookies ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- 20 ingredients
- 5 additives
- Nutri-Score E
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Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
Wheat flour, Sugars (processing marker) (sugar, glucose-fructose (ultra-processing marker), fancy molasses), Chocolate chips (sugars su unsweetened chocolate, cocoa butter (processing marker), soya lecithin (ultra-processing marker), natural flavour (ultra-processing marker)), Vegetable oil (processing marker) (contains modified palm oil), Liquid whole egg, Cocoa, Salt (processing marker), milk ingredients (ultra-processing marker), Vegetable glycerin, Baking soda, Natural flavour (ultra-processing marker), Baked in a peanut free facility
Additives: E322 Lecithins , E322i Lecithin , E422 Glycerol , E500 Sodium carbonates , E500ii Sodium hydrogen carbonate
As written on the pack
Wheat flour, Sugars (sugar/glucose-fructose, fancy molasses), Chocolate chips (sugars su unsweetened chocolate, cocoa butter, soya lecithin, natural flavour), Vegetable oil (contains modified palm oil), Liquid whole egg, Cocoa, Salt, Modified milk ingredients, Vegetable glycerin, Baking soda, Natural flavour. Contains: Wheat, Soya, Egg, Milk. Baked in a peanut free facility.
What makes it ultra-processed
Cosmetic additives
Added to change how the food looks, feels or tastes, not to keep it safe. A hallmark of ultra-processed food.
- E322 Lecithins Lecithins are fatty substances extracted mostly from soybeans, sunflower seeds or eggs, used as emulsifiers to keep fat and water mixed, for example in chocolate.
- E422 Glycerol Glycerol is a sweet-tasting liquid used to keep products moist and soft.
- Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.
Substances rarely used in home kitchens
Refined or extracted in factories, such as syrups made from starch or isolated proteins. The other hallmark of ultra-processed food.
- Glucose Glucose, usually listed as glucose syrup, is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
- Fructose Fructose is the sugar found naturally in fruit and honey, but as an ingredient it is refined industrially, mostly from corn starch.
- Milk An ingredient mostly produced industrially and rarely used in home kitchens.
5 ingredients that would only make it processed
Kitchen staples like sugar, salt and oil. On their own they make a food processed, not ultra-processed.
- Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
- Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
- Vegetable fat Vegetable fats are oils that are solid at room temperature, such as palm or coconut fat.
- Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.
- Sweet snacks Products in the category "Sweet snacks" are at least group 3.
Among 50 chocolate chip cookies
From least to most processed, this one ranks 25th. 92% of the chocolate chip cookies here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0063348100948, last edited 20 August 2026), available under the Open Database License. If something is wrong or the recipe has changed, you can correct it there.
- Photo: Open Food Facts contributors, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- The NOVA group is an automated estimate from crowdsourced data: a missing or mistyped ingredient can change it.
- NOVA measures processing, not nutrition. For nutrition, Open Food Facts gives this product a Nutri-Score of E (from A, best, to E).
- General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.