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Is Simple Mills Crunchy Almond Flour Cookies Double Chocolate ultra-processed?

5.5 oz Chocolate biscuits Sold in the United States

Pack of Simple Mills Crunchy Almond Flour Cookies Double Chocolate

It's processed, but not ultra-processed

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

Whole foods combined with:

  • 19 ingredients
  • 5 additives
  • Nutri-Score C

Less processed sweet snacks

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

Nut, flour blend (almonds, flax seeds), tapioca starch, coconut sugar, chocolate chips (cane sugar, chocolate, cocoa butter), palm shortening, arrowroot, vanilla extract, dutch cocoa powder, sea salt, baking soda, rosemary extract (for freshness), cream of tartar

Additives: E336 Potassium tartrates , E336i Monopotassium tartrate , E392 Extracts of rosemary , E500 Sodium carbonates , E500ii Sodium hydrogen carbonate

As written on the pack

Nut and seed flour blend (almonds, flax seeds), tapioca starch, organic coconut sugar, chocolate chips (cane sugar, unsweetened chocolate, cocoa butter), organic palm shortening, arrowroot, vanilla extract, dutch cocoa powder, sea salt, baking soda, rosemary extract (for freshness), cream of tartar

What makes it processed

Culinary ingredients

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.
  • Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.
  • 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.

Category rules

Open Food Facts puts every product in this category in at least this group.

  • Sweet snacks Products in the category "Sweet snacks" are at least group 3.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 301 chocolate biscuits

From least to most processed, this one ranks 14th. 95% of the chocolate 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 301 chocolate biscuits, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0856069005223, last edited 2 July 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 C (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.