Is Big Daddy Chocolate Chunks Cookie ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- 34 ingredients
- 9 additives
- Nutri-Score E
Less processed biscuits
Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
Whole rolled oats, Sugars (processing marker) (sugar, glucose (ultra-processing marker), dextrose (ultra-processing marker), cooking molasses), Enriched wheat flour, Chocolate chunks (sugars (processing marker) (sugar, dextrose (ultra-processing marker)), chocolate, cocoa butter (processing marker), soy lecithin (ultra-processing marker), artificial flavour (ultra-processing marker), milk), Water, Canola oil, palm (ultra-processing marker), palm kernel oils margarine (soy, milk), Vegetable oil (processing marker), Liquid whole eggs, Baking powder, Glycerin (ultra-processing marker), Baking soda, Salt (processing marker), Xanthan gum (ultra-processing marker), Potassium sorbate (processing marker), Sodium alginate (ultra-processing marker), Guar gum (ultra-processing marker), Citrus fiber (ultra-processing marker), Natural and artificial flavour (ultra-processing marker)
Additives: E202 Potassium sorbate , E322 Lecithins , E322i Lecithin , E401 Sodium alginate , E412 Guar gum , E415 Xanthan gum , E422 Glycerol , E500 Sodium carbonates , E500ii Sodium hydrogen carbonate
As written on the pack
Whole rolled oats, Sugars (sugar, glucose, dextrose, cooking molasses), Enriched wheat flour, Chocolate chunks (sugars [sugar, dextrose], unsweetened chocolate, cocoa butter, soy lecithin, artificial flavour, milk), Water, Canola oil and modified palm and palm kernel oils margarine (soy, milk), Vegetable oil, Liquid whole eggs, Baking powder, Glycerin, Baking soda, Salt, Xanthan gum, Potassium sorbate, Sodium alginate, Guar gum, Citrus fiber, Natural and artificial flavour.
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.
- E401 Sodium alginate A food additive used to dissolve, dilute, disperse or otherwise physically modify a food additive or nutrient without altering its function -and without exerting any technological effect itself- in order to facilitate its handling, application or use of the food additive or nutrient.
- E412 Guar gum Guar gum is a thickener ground from the seeds of the guar plant.
- E415 Xanthan gum Xanthan gum is a thickener made by fermenting sugar with the bacterium Xanthomonas campestris.
- 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.
- Dextrose Dextrose is pure glucose crystallised from starch-derived syrup.
- Glucose Glucose, usually listed as glucose syrup, is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
- Vegetable fiber Isolated plant fibres, such as inulin, oat fibre or bamboo fibre, are extracted industrially and added to change texture or support "source of fibre" claims.
- Palm An ingredient mostly produced industrially and rarely used in home kitchens.
6 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.
- E202 Potassium sorbate Preservatives are substances which prolong the shelf-life of foods by protecting them against deterioration caused by micro-organisms and/or which protect against growth of pathogenic micro-organisms.
- 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 1,514 biscuits
From least to most processed, this one ranks 1416th. 83% of the biscuits here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0626233226026, last edited 7 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.