Nutella Biscuits (Hazelnut & Cocoa Filled Cookies) — DUMP
Munch or Dump rates Nutella Biscuits (Hazelnut & Cocoa Filled Cookies) by Nutella biscuits DUMP — score 17/90.
Sugar-first cookies stacking five sweeteners, palm oil and palm-kernel fat, refined wheat flour and starch, and emulsifiers. Classic hyper-palatable, lab-built snack engineered for craving, not nutrition.
Why this verdict
- Sugar is the #1 ingredient in the filling, ahead of any cocoa or hazelnut
- Five sweetener sources: sugar, cane sugar, lactose, honey and malt extract
- Palm oil plus a separate palm/palm-kernel vegetable fat: refined, saturated-fat-heavy oils
- Hyper-palatable triad: added sugar + refined oil + refined wheat starch
- 25-plus ingredients with soy lecithin emulsifiers and vanillin — textbook NOVA-4
Ingredients (17)
- Sugar (moderate) — Added for sweetness, can contribute to calorie content.
- Palm Oil (moderate) — Saturated-fat-heavy oil used in the crust.
- Vegetable fats (palm, palm kernel) (caution) — More refined saturated fat, this time in the biscuit dough.
- Wheat flour (32.5%) (moderate) — Refined flour with little fiber; digests fast and adds to the glucose spike.
- Cane Sugar (moderate) — Added sugar in the breadcrumb — one of two distinct sweeteners in the list.
- Lactose (safe) — Milk sugar carrier in the seasoning; makes the chips not dairy-free.
- honey (moderate) — A pure natural sweetener - roughly 80% sugars; clean but calorically dense, use sparingly.
- Hazelnuts (13%) (safe) — The namesake nut, but only 13%, well behind sugar and oil.
- Skimmed Milk Powder (safe) — Milk solids in the fillings.
- fat-reduced cocoa (safe) — Small amount of cocoa for flavour
- Lecithins (soy) (safe) — Common emulsifier; benign but adds to the additive stack.
- VANILLIN (moderate) — Synthetic vanilla flavor — the lone artificial additive in an otherwise recognizable list.
- WHEAT BRAN (safe) — Pure fibre from the outer grain layer, good for digestion.
- 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 (safe) — Vitamin C, acts as a preservative here.
- Salt (moderate) — Used in moderation, might exceed necessary amount.