Is Dare Ultimate Maple Creme Filled 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:
- 17 ingredients
- 7 additives
- Nutri-Score E
Less processed biscuits
Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
Wheat flour, Sugars (processing marker) (sugar, maple syrup (processing marker)), Vegetable oil shortening (contains coconut oil (processing marker), modified palm oil, may contain palm kernel oil), Corn starch (processing marker), Salt (processing marker), Baking soda, Soya lecithin (ultra-processing marker), Baking powder, Caramel, Ammonium bicarbonate, Annatto (ultra-processing marker), Natural flavour (ultra-processing marker)
Additives: E160b Annatto , E322 Lecithins , E322i Lecithin , E500 Sodium carbonates , E500ii Sodium hydrogen carbonate , E503 Ammonium carbonates , E503ii Ammonium hydrogen carbonate
As written on the pack
Wheat flour, Sugars (sugar, maple syrup), Vegetable oil shortening (contains coconut oil and modified palm oil, may contain palm kernel oil), Corn starch, Salt, Baking soda, Soya lecithin, Baking powder, Caramel, Ammonium bicarbonate, Annatto, Natural 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.
- E160b Annatto Colours are substances which add or restore colour in a food, and include natural constituents of foods and natural sources which are normally not consumed as foods as such and not normally used as characteristic ingredients of 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.
- Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.
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.
- Maple syrup An ingredient mostly produced industrially and rarely used in home kitchens.
- Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
- Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.
- Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
- 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 757th. 83% of the biscuits here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0055653170259, last edited 26 May 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.