H-E-B Bakery Chocolate Chunk Cookies — TREAT

Munch or Dump rates H-E-B Bakery Chocolate Chunk Cookies by H-E-B Bakery TREAT — score 43/90.

This is a real bakery cookie: flour, palm oil, sugar, chocolate, brown sugar, and eggs, with soy lecithin and invert syrup rounding it out. The ingredients are simple and recognizable, but it's sugar and fat heavy with several stacked sweeteners. Enjoy it as what it is, an indulgence, not an everyday snack.

Why this verdict

• Simple, kitchen-recognizable ingredients: flour, palm oil, sugar, chocolate, eggs
• Sugar, brown sugar, and invert syrup stack multiple sweeteners into one cookie
• Palm oil plus refined enriched flour plus sugar makes this rich and calorie-dense
• No artificial colors or flavor-enhancer chemistry, just an indulgent bake
• Enriched flour is refined, stripping the grain of its original nutrients

Ingredients (9)

• Enriched wheat flour (moderate) — Refined breading flour stripped of the grain's fiber and nutrients, then synthetically re-fortified.
• Palm Oil (moderate) — Refined saturated fat used for structure and shelf life.
• Sugar (moderate) — Small added sweetener to balance acidity; minor at salsa portions.
• chocolate chunks (safe) — Real chocolate liquor and cocoa butter, sweetened.
• brown sugar (caution) — Second added sugar in the flavor base.
• eggs (safe) — Genuine brioche enrichment; a real ingredient doing real work.
• invert syrup (moderate) — A third sweetener that keeps the cookie soft.
• Soy Lecithin (safe) — Emulsifier in the chocolate chips; common and low concern.
• Natural flavor (moderate) — Nonspecific flavoring; the only vague, non-whole ingredient in the jar.