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 (concerning) — Second ingredient and the dominant nutritional driver; added sugar in liquid form spikes blood glucose and adds empty calories.
Vegetable fats (palm, sal, shea) (concerning) — Cheap refined fats used to stretch the chocolate; high in saturated fat and not cocoa butter.
Cocoa Butter (moderate) — Genuine cocoa fat, the good part of chocolate, but present in smaller proportion than the substitute fats.
Cocoa Mass (safe) — Actual cocoa solids providing real chocolate flavour and some antioxidants.
soya lecithin (safe) — Common emulsifier; benign but a marker of industrial processing.
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 flour, fortified by law; fast carbs with the bran and germ stripped out.
Palm Oil (moderate) — Highly saturated refined fat used for texture and shelf life.
Partially inverted sugar syrup (concerning) — A liquid refined sugar that adds yet another sweetener source and boosts glycemic load.
Salt (moderate) — Common seasoning but can contribute to high sodium intake.
Raising agents (ammonium/sodium bicarbonate) (safe) — Standard leavening agents to make the biscuit crisp; harmless.
flavouring (moderate) — Undisclosed added flavouring, despite the brand's 'no artificial flavours' positioning.