Good & Gather Mini Peanut Butter Filled Pretzels — ENGINEERED
Munch or Dump rates Good & Gather Mini Peanut Butter Filled Pretzels by Good & Gather ENGINEERED — score 30/90.
Enriched-flour pretzel shell around a sweetened peanut butter filling, built on the classic snack triad of refined starch, palm oil, and sugar plus corn syrup solids and a monoglyceride emulsifier. The peanuts give it some real protein, but this is a formulated crave-snack, not a whole food. The ingredients are honest and there are no artificial colors or flavors.
Why this verdict
- Hyper-palatable snack triad: enriched flour + palm oil + sugar
- Corn syrup solids and monoglyceride emulsifier are industrial snack additives
- Refined enriched wheat flour is the base, not whole grain
- Roasted peanuts and peanut butter add genuine protein (about 12g/100g)
Ingredients (8)
- Enriched wheat flour (moderate) — Refined breading flour stripped of the grain's fiber and nutrients, then synthetically re-fortified.
- peanut butter (safe) — Real ground peanuts — the source of the filling's protein and healthy fats.
- roasted peanuts (safe) — The one ingredient a peanut butter actually needs; good protein and healthy fats.
- Sugar (moderate) — Small added sweetener to balance acidity; minor at salsa portions.
- Palm Oil (moderate) — Refined saturated fat used for structure and shelf life.
- corn syrup solids (caution) — One of four sweetener sources.
- MONOGLYCERIDES (moderate) — Emulsifier that keeps the crumb soft; industrial dough marker.
- Salt (moderate) — Main sodium source; keep an eye on it if you use large amounts.
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