McVitie's Butter Cookie — DUMP

Name: McVitie's Butter Cookie
Brand: Mcvitie's

Munch or Dump rates McVitie's Butter Cookie by Mcvitie's DUMP — score 20/90.

A refined-flour, sugar, and palm-oil cookie dressed up with artificial butter and vanilla flavors plus a sulfite preservative. The 'high in calcium' badge is window dressing on what is essentially candy in biscuit form.

Why this verdict

Sugar plus invert sugar syrup are two stacked sweeteners high on the list
Refined flour + sugar + palm oil = the classic hyper-palatable, blood-sugar-spiking triad
Artificial butter and vanilla flavors fake a premium taste real ingredients don't deliver
Two emulsifiers (glycerol monostearate, soy lecithin) mark it as ultra-processed
Sodium metabisulfite is a sulfite preservative that can trigger reactions in sensitive people

Ingredients (14)

wheat flour (moderate) — Refined flour for the wafer shell — refined carbohydrate with little fiber. Also a gluten source.
Sugar (concerning) — Added refined sugar, listed high - spikes blood sugar with no nutrition.
Palm oil (with E319 antioxidant) (concerning) — Refined high-saturated-fat oil; E319 (TBHQ) is a synthetic antioxidant.
Butter (3%) (moderate) — Real dairy fat but only a token 3% despite the 'butter cookie' name.
Partially inverted sugar syrup (concerning) — Yet another added sugar for moisture and sweetness; the third-plus distinct sweetener here.
Corn Starch (moderate) — Pure refined starch for texture; empty carbohydrate.
Raising agents (ammonium bicarbonate, sodium bicarbonate, sodium acid pyrophosphate) (safe) — Standard leavening agents; benign in these amounts.
Calcium carbonate (1%) (safe) — Fortification mineral behind the 'high in calcium' claim; harmless but cosmetic here.
Skimmed Milk Powder (safe) — Standard dairy ingredient for milk chocolate; benign.
Salt (moderate) — Added sodium for flavour.
Glycerol monostearate (moderate) — Emulsifier; a marker of ultra-processing.
Soy Lecithin (safe) — Common emulsifier, generally benign in these amounts.
Artificial flavors (butter, vanilla) (moderate) — Synthetic flavorings faking the taste of real butter and vanilla.
Antioxidant (sodium metabisulfite) (concerning) — Sulfite preservative that can trigger reactions in sulfite-sensitive and asthmatic people.