Is Voortman Bakery Chocolate 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:
- 28 ingredients
- 6 additives
- Nutri-Score D
Less processed biscuits
Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
Enriched wheat flour, flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid, maltitol (ultra-processing marker), vegetable oil (processing marker) (canola, soybean, palm and palm kernel, sunflower), sugar free chocolate chips (maltitol (ultra-processing marker), chocolate, cocoa butter, soy lecithin (ultra-processing marker), vanillin), natural and artificial flavor (ultra-processing marker), salt (processing marker), sodium bicarbonate, eggs, acesulfame potassium (ultra-processing marker), whey (ultra-processing marker), artificial color (ultra-processing marker) (fd&c yellow #5 (ultra-processing marker), fd&c yellow #6 (ultra-processing marker))
Additives: E102 Tartrazine , E110 Sunset yellow FCF , E322 Lecithins , E322i Lecithin , E950 Acesulfame k , E965 Maltitol
As written on the pack
Enriched wheat flour (flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid, maltitol, vegetable oil (canola, soybean, palm and palm kernel, sunflower), sugar free chocolate chips (maltitol, unsweetened chocolate, cocoa butter, soy lecithin, vanillin), natural and artificial flavor, salt, sodium bicarbonate, eggs, acesulfame potassium, whey, artificial color (fd&c yellow #5, fd&c yellow #6).
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.
- E102 Tartrazine Tartrazine is a synthetic yellow azo dye (FD&C Yellow No. 5 in the US).
- E110 Sunset yellow FCF Sunset yellow FCF is a synthetic orange azo dye (FD&C Yellow No. 6 in the US).
- 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.
- E950 Acesulfame k Acesulfame K is a synthetic sweetener about 200 times sweeter than sugar, often combined with aspartame or sucralose.
- E965 Maltitol Maltitol is a sugar alcohol made from starch, used as a sweetener in "no added sugar" sweets and chocolate.
- Colour Colours are added to restore colour lost in processing or to make a product look more appealing.
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- Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.
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.
- Whey Whey is the liquid left over from cheese making, usually dried into a powder and used as a cheap source of milk solids, protein and lactose.
3 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.
- Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
- 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 1336th. 83% of the biscuits here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0067312005505, last edited 3 April 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 D (from A, best, to E).
- General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.