Favorite Day Frosted Sugar Cookies — DUMP
Munch or Dump rates Favorite Day Frosted Sugar Cookies by Favorite Day DUMP — score 17/90.
Sold under a bakery label but engineered like a shelf-stable snack. The formula pairs bleached refined flour, refined oils and sugar with synthetic dyes (Yellow 5, Blue 1), artificial flavor, polysorbate 60 and shellac. That is industrial food chemistry, not simple cookie baking.
Why this verdict
- Synthetic dyes FD&C Yellow #5 and Blue #1 color both cookie and frosting
- Long ultra-processed list (NOVA 4) with artificial flavor and shellac
- Emulsifier stack: polysorbate 60, mono- and diglycerides, multiple lecithins
- Hyper-palatable triad: bleached flour + refined oils + sugar
- Refined bleached flour and margarine as structural base
Ingredients (10)
- Bleached Enriched Wheat Flour (moderate) — Refined, bleached flour; fast carbohydrate with no fiber.
- Sugar / icing sugar (caution) — Added sugar appears several times across cookie, frosting and sprinkles.
- Margarine (soybean & palm oil) (moderate) — Refined oil blend with emulsifiers standing in for butter.
- FD&C Yellow #5 (tartrazine) (avoid) — Synthetic azo dye linked to hyperactivity in sensitive children.
- FD&C Blue #1 (avoid) — Petroleum-derived synthetic dye used purely for color.
- Polysorbate 60 (moderate) — Synthetic emulsifier stabilizing cake and icing.
- Mono- and diglycerides (caution) — Emulsifier and dough conditioner; a defining marker of industrial rather than bakery bread.
- Shellac (moderate) — Insect-derived glaze on the sprinkles for shine.
- Artificial Flavor) (caution) — Synthetic flavoring in the cookie rather than real vanilla.
- eggs (safe) — Genuine brioche enrichment; a real ingredient doing real work.