Oreo Original (Cadbury) — ENGINEERED

Munch or Dump rates Oreo Original (Cadbury) by Cadbury ENGINEERED — score 30/90.

A lab-built cookie: refined flour, sugar, and refined fats engineered into a hyper-palatable sandwich with barely 2% actual cocoa.

Why this verdict

• Hyper-palatable triad: refined maida + sugar/invert sugar + refined fats
• Two distinct sugar sources engineer the sweetness
• Only 2% cocoa despite the 'real cocoa' front-of-pack pitch
• NOVA 4 ultra-processed with emulsifiers and added starch
• Effectively zero fiber, protein, or micronutrients

Ingredients (11)

• Refined Wheat Flour (Maida) (concerning) — Stripped white flour, no fiber, spikes blood sugar; the #1 ingredient
• Sugar (moderate) — Added for sweetness, can contribute to calorie content.
• Fractionated Fat (concerning) — Industrially processed fat for shelf-stable texture
• Palmolein (moderate) — Refined palm oil, high in saturated fat
• Invert Sugar (caution) — Yet another sweetener layered in to keep the bar sweet and soft.
• Cocoa Solids (2%) (safe) — The actual chocolate content is tiny
• Leavening Agents (500, 503) (safe) — Baking soda / ammonium compounds for rise; safe but a processing marker.
• Starch (moderate) — Added refined starch for structure, empty carbs
• Iodised Salt (moderate) — Necessary for thyroid health, but overuse can contribute to hypertension.
• emulsifiers (moderate) — Bind the fat and water phases; a hallmark of ultra-processed formulation.
• Nature Identical Flavouring Substances (moderate) — Lab-synthesized 'mango' flavor doing the heavy lifting instead of actual fruit.