Cadbury Fingers Milk Chocolate Biscuits — ENGINEERED

Name: Cadbury Fingers Milk Chocolate Biscuits
Brand: Cadbury

Munch or Dump rates Cadbury Fingers Milk Chocolate Biscuits by Cadbury ENGINEERED — score 30/90.

A refined-flour biscuit dunked in palm-fat chocolate, built on the hyper-palatable triad of sugar, refined oil, and refined starch with three separate sweetener sources and a double emulsifier stack.

Why this verdict

Three separate sweetener sources: sugar, more sugar, and partially inverted sugar syrup
Hyper-palatable triad present: added sugar + refined palm oil + refined wheat flour
Double emulsifier stack (soya lecithin + E476) props up cheap vegetable fats
Cocoa butter is partly swapped for palm, sal and shea fats to cut cost
35g sugar and 26g fat per 100g, NOVA group 4

Ingredients (13)

Milk chocolate (48%) (moderate) — Real milk chocolate, but mostly sugar and vegetable fat with cocoa butter partly replaced by palm/sal/shea.
Sugar (moderate) — Added for sweetness, can contribute to calorie content.
Vegetable fats (palm, sal, shea) (concerning) — Cheap refined fats used to stretch the chocolate; high in saturated fat and not cocoa butter.
Cocoa Butter (safe) — The natural fat of the cacao bean.
Cocoa Mass (safe) — Real chocolate liquor.
soya lecithin (moderate) — Emulsifier that keeps the sauce from splitting; processing aid, not nutrition.
E476 (polyglycerol polyricinoleate) (moderate) — Second emulsifier used to thin chocolate so less cocoa butter is needed; purely an industrial cost-cutter.
Wheat Flour (with calcium, iron, niacin, thiamin) (moderate) — Refined white flour, legally fortified with calcium, iron and B vitamins in the UK. Spikes blood sugar but the added micronutrients help a little.
Palm Oil (moderate) — Saturated-fat-heavy oil used in the crust.
Partially inverted sugar syrup (concerning) — A third added-sugar source; inverted syrup is fast-absorbing glucose and fructose.
Salt (moderate) — Used in moderation, might exceed necessary amount.
Raising agents (ammonium/sodium bicarbonate) (safe) — Standard leavening agents to make the biscuit crisp; harmless.
flavouring (moderate) — Undisclosed flavor blend.