Is The Skinny Cookie Co Choc Chip 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:
- 26 ingredients
- 7 additives
- Nutri-Score C
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Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
Wheat flour (Wheat flour, Calcium carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Rapeseed oil, Oatbran, Sugar free chocolate chips 9% (Sweetener (ultra-processing marker) (Maltitol (ultra-processing marker)), Cocoa mass, Emulsifier (ultra-processing marker) (Soya lecithins (ultra-processing marker)), Fat reduced Cocoa powder, Flavouring (ultra-processing marker)), Sugar (processing marker), Chicory root, Fructose (ultra-processing marker), Desiccated coconut 1.5%, Vegetable glycerine (ultra-processing marker), Flavourings (ultra-processing marker), skimmed milk, Raising agents (Ammonium bicarbonates, Sodium bicarbonates)
Additives: E322 Lecithins , E422 Glycerol , E500 Sodium carbonates , E500ii Sodium hydrogen carbonate , E503 Ammonium carbonates , E503ii Ammonium hydrogen carbonate , E965 Maltitol
As written on the pack
Wheat flour (Wheat flour, Calcium carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Rapeseed oil, Oatbran, Sugar free chocolate chips (9%) (Sweetener (Maltitol), Cocoa mass, Emulsifier (Soya lecithins), Fat reduced Cocoa powder, Flavouring), Sugar, Chicory root extract, Fructose, Desiccated coconut (1.5%). Vegetable glycerine, Flavourings, Dried skimmed milk, Raising agents (Ammonium bicarbonates, Sodium bicarbonates)
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.
- E422 Glycerol Glycerol is a sweet-tasting liquid used to keep products moist and soft.
- E965 Maltitol Maltitol is a sugar alcohol made from starch, used as a sweetener in "no added sugar" sweets and chocolate.
- Emulsifier Emulsifiers keep fat and water from separating, giving products a smooth, stable texture over a long shelf life.
- Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.
- Sweetener Sweeteners give sweetness with few or no calories, many at hundreds of times the strength of sugar.
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.
- Fructose Fructose is the sugar found naturally in fruit and honey, but as an ingredient it is refined industrially, mostly from corn starch.
2 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.
- Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
- Sweet snacks Products in the category "Sweet snacks" are at least group 3.
Among 301 chocolate biscuits
From least to most processed, this one ranks 222nd. 95% of the chocolate biscuits here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0072417200410, last edited 27 March 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.