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Is Simple Mills Nut Butter Stuffed Sandwich Cookies Cocoa & Cashew Butter ultra-processed?

190g Chocolate sandwich cookies Sold in the United States

Pack of Simple Mills Nut Butter Stuffed Sandwich Cookies Cocoa & Cashew Butter

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:

  • 13 ingredients
  • 3 additives
  • Nutri-Score E

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

Cashews, Coconut Sugar, Palm Shortening, Tapioca Starch, Buckwheat Flour, Dutch Cocoa Powder, Carrot Fiber, Arrowroot, Apple Cider Vinegar, Sea Salt, Baking Soda, Vanilla Extract, Rosemary Extract

Additives: E392 Extracts of rosemary , E500 Sodium carbonates , E500ii Sodium hydrogen carbonate

As written on the pack

Cashews, Organic Coconut Sugar, Organic Palm Shortening, Tapioca Starch, Organic Buckwheat Flour, Dutch Cocoa Powder, Carrot Fiber, Arrowroot, Organic Apple Cider Vinegar, Sea Salt, Baking Soda, Vanilla Extract, Rosemary Extract

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.

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 23 chocolate sandwich cookies

From least to most processed, this one ranks 1st. 96% of the chocolate sandwich cookies 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 23 chocolate sandwich cookies, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0810021671611, last edited 2 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.