Chocolatey Cats Cookies For People — ENGINEERED

Munch or Dump rates Chocolatey Cats Cookies For People by Trader Joe's ENGINEERED — score 30/90.

Refined flour and two sugars up top, palm oil, and a double dose of emulsifiers. Built to be snackable, not nourishing.

Why this verdict

• Refined enriched flour is the #1 ingredient, sugar #2
• Two added sweeteners stacked: sugar plus invert syrup
• Hyper-palatable triad present: refined starch + sugar + palm oil
• Two emulsifiers stacked (mono/diglycerides + soy lecithin)
• Ultra-processed (NOVA 4), engineered for craving not nutrition

Ingredients (11)

• unbleached enriched flour (moderate) — Refined wheat flour stripped of fiber and then fortified with synthetic vitamins; spikes blood sugar and offers little real nutrition.
• Sugar (concerning) — Added refined sugar, listed high - spikes blood sugar with no nutrition.
• Defatted cocoa powder (processed with alkali) (moderate) — Dutch-processed cocoa for color and flavor; alkali processing strips most of the beneficial flavanols.
• invert syrup (concerning) — A second free-sugar source for sweetness and browning.
• Palm Oil (moderate) — Refined oil high in saturated fat, used in both the spread and the breadsticks for cheap richness.
• WHOLE WHEAT FLOUR (safe) — Genuine whole grain with intact fiber and nutrients, but it sits second behind refined flour.
• Natural flavour (moderate) — Catch-all flavoring; not artificial but a vague non-whole-food addition.
• Sodium Bicarbonate (safe) — Baking soda raising agent, completely benign in this quantity.
• Salt (moderate) — Added sodium for flavour.
• Vegetable mono and diglycerides (moderate) — Industrial emulsifier for texture. A processing marker rarely found in a real home kitchen.
• Soy Lecithin (safe) — Common emulsifier, generally benign in these amounts.