Nutella Biscuits (Hazelnut & Cocoa Filled Cookies) — DUMP
Munch or Dump rates Nutella Biscuits (Hazelnut & Cocoa Filled Cookies) by Nutella biscuits DUMP — score 20/90.
Sugar-first cookies stacking four sweeteners, palm oil and palm-kernel fat, refined wheat starch, and emulsifiers. Classic hyper-palatable, lab-built snack engineered for craving, not nutrition.
Why this verdict
- Sugar is the #1 ingredient, plus cane sugar, lactose, honey and malt — four sweetener sources
- Palm oil and a separate palm/palm-kernel vegetable fat: refined, saturated-fat-heavy oils
- Hyper-palatable triad: added sugar + refined oil + refined wheat starch
- Multiple emulsifiers (soy/sunflower lecithins) and vanillin artificial flavor
- NOVA-4 ultra-processed; engineered for craving with no whole-food nutrition
Ingredients (17)
- Sugar (moderate) — Added sugar to offset tomato acidity — small but it's still added sugar.
- Palm Oil (moderate) — Refined oil high in saturated fat; raises LDL cholesterol with regular intake.
- Vegetable fats (palm, palm kernel) (moderate) — A second refined tropical fat stacked on top of palm oil; very high saturated fat.
- wheat flour (moderate) — Refined flour with little fiber; digests fast and adds to the glucose spike.
- Cane Sugar (concerning) — A second distinct added sugar layered on top of the first.
- Lactose (moderate) — Milk sugar adding a third sweetener source and a problem for the lactose-intolerant.
- honey (moderate) — Fourth sweetener; still sugar despite the natural halo.
- HAZELNUTS (safe) — Real nuts contribute healthy fats and a little protein, the one genuine positive here.
- Skimmed Milk Powder (safe) — Adds small amounts of protein and calcium.
- fat-reduced cocoa (safe) — Provides flavor and trace polyphenols; minor benefit.
- Lecithins (soy/sunflower) (moderate) — Emulsifiers used twice across the recipe; marker of ultra-processing.
- VANILLIN (moderate) — Synthetic vanilla flavoring, a tell for a lab-formulated product.
- WHEAT BRAN (safe) — Small fiber contribution.
- Leavening agents (disodium diphosphate, sodium/ammonium bicarbonate) (moderate) — Phosphate-based raising agents; fine in small amounts but added phosphate load.
- Malted barley flour / barley-maize malt extract (moderate) — Adds color, flavor and a fifth sugar-derived sweetness.
- wheat starch (moderate) — Refined starch completing the hyper-palatable triad with sugar and oil.
- Salt (moderate) — Adds sodium; reasonable for a sauce but worth watching across the day.