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Is Girl Scouts toffee-tastic ultra-processed?

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Pack of Girl Scouts toffee-tastic

Yes, it's ultra-processed

  1. 1 Unprocessed
  2. 2 Kitchen staple
  3. 3 Processed
  4. 4 Ultra-processed

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

  • 34 ingredients
  • 5 additives
  • Nutri-Score E

Less processed biscuits

Less processed isn't automatically healthier, so compare the labels for what matters to you, such as sugar or salt.

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

rice flour, tapioca starch, sugar, butter (cream, salt), palm oil, brown rice flour, butter toffee bits (sugar, butter (cream, salt), corn syrup, soy lecithin, salt), invert sugar, contains 2% and less of salt, soy lecithin, xanthan gum, baking soda, ingredients, manufactured for little brownie bakers® l, l, c, louisville, kentucky 40216 baked in u, s, a, certified ustainable mixed nsf glute n-free recycled contributes to the production of certified sustainable palm oil, www, rspo, org rspo rspo-1106186 flatten before recycling paper plastic wrapper box how2recycle, infc palm oil certified oard %

Additives: E322 Lecithins , E322i Lecithin , E415 Xanthan gum , E500 Sodium carbonates , E500ii Sodium hydrogen carbonate

As written on the pack

rice flour, tapioca starch, sugar, butter (cream, salt), palm oil, brown rice flour, butter toffee bits (sugar, butter [cream, salt], corn syrup, soy lecithin, salt), invert sugar, contains 2% or less of salt, soy lecithin, xanthan gum, baking soda, contains milk and soy ingredients, manufactured for little brownie bakers® l,l,c, louisville, kentucky 40216 baked in u,s,a, certified ustainable mixed nsf glute n-free recycled contributes to the production of certified sustainable palm oil, www,rspo,org rspo rspo-1106186 flatten before recycling paper plastic wrapper box how2recycle,infc palm oil certified oard %

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.
  • E415 Xanthan gum Xanthan gum is a thickener made by fermenting sugar with the bacterium Xanthomonas campestris.

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.

  • Invert sugar Invert sugar is ordinary sugar split into glucose and fructose with acid or enzymes.
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.

  • Butter Butter, the fat churned from cream.
  • 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.
  • Sweet snacks Products in the category "Sweet snacks" are at least group 3.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 1,514 biscuits

From least to most processed, this one ranks 731st. 83% of the biscuits here are ultra-processed.

Ranked by NOVA group, then by the number of ultra-processing signs, additives and ingredients. Our ordering, not part of NOVA.

All 1,514 biscuits, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0082011100689, last edited 24 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.