Favorite Day Milk Chocolate Sea Salt Caramels — TREAT

Munch or Dump rates Favorite Day Milk Chocolate Sea Salt Caramels by Favorite Day TREAT — score 45/90.

Straightforward indulgent candy: milk-chocolate-covered caramels made from real cream, sugar, chocolate, cocoa butter and vanilla, finished with sea salt. It's sugar- and saturated-fat-heavy and makes no health claims, but the ingredient list is honest and free of artificial colors, flavor enhancers or gums. A treat, plain and simple.

Why this verdict

• It's candy: 47 g sugar per 100 g from a stack of caramel sugars (cane sugar, invert sugar, brown sugar, molasses), with no pretense of being healthy.
• But the ingredients are real and recognizable: cream, chocolate, cocoa butter, butter, vanilla and sea salt, with no artificial colors, flavor enhancers, gums or maltodextrin.
• Soy lecithin, a standard chocolate emulsifier, is the only processing aid worth noting.
• Rich and indulgent at 22 g fat and 14 g saturated fat per 100 g, but it's honest, simple confection rather than an engineered one.

Ingredients (10)

• cream (safe) — Whole dairy fat; the reason it is rich and calorie-dense.
• sugar / cane sugar / brown sugar (caution) — Multiple sugars; total is 47 g per 100 g.
• Invert Sugar (caution) — Fourth sweetener source.
• molasses (safe) — Natural sweetener adding caramel depth.
• Chocolate (safe) — Real chocolate liquor in the coating.
• Cocoa Butter (safe) — Natural cocoa fat that gives chocolate its melt.
• Butter / Milk (safe) — Dairy for the caramel and chocolate.
• Vanilla Extract (safe) — Real vanilla, not artificial vanillin.
• Soy Lecithin (safe) — Emulsifier in both chocolate coatings.
• Sea Salt (safe) — The 'salted' note, used in small amounts for contrast.