Orion The Ultimate Choco Chip Cookies — DUMP
Munch or Dump rates Orion The Ultimate Choco Chip Cookies by Orion DUMP — score 20/90.
Hydrogenated vegetable fat plus three different sugars and lab-made flavors. This is a heavily engineered cookie wearing a 'premium gourmet' costume.
Why this verdict
- Hydrogenated vegetable fat means trans fat, the worst fat for your heart
- Three sugar sources stacked: sugar, liquid glucose and invert syrup
- Refined wheat flour (maida) base with zero whole grain
- Nature-identical (artificial) chocolate, milk and vanilla flavors
- Ultra-processed (NOVA 4) despite 'premium gourmet' framing
Ingredients (12)
- Refined Wheat Flour (Maida) (moderate) — Stripped white flour - spikes blood sugar and undercuts the whole-grain claim.
- Chocolate chips (26%) (moderate) — Real cocoa is present but the chips are mostly sugar, with emulsifiers added.
- Hydrogenated Vegetable Fat (harmful) — Source of artificial trans fat, directly linked to heart disease; no safe level.
- Liquid glucose (moderate) — A second refined sweetener (glucose syrup) used for texture and cost - stacks sugar load.
- Sugar (moderate) — Added sugar sitting ahead of cocoa; the main flavor driver here.
- invert syrup (concerning) — Third distinct sweetener; glucose-fructose blend that keeps cookies soft and very sweet.
- Milk Solids (safe) — Concentrated dairy solids that add protein and calcium; standard for toned milk.
- Cocoa Solids (safe) — The actual chocolate component — present, but far down the list behind sugar, flour and oils.
- Leavening agents (INS 503(ii), INS 500(ii)) (safe) — Standard baking raising agents; harmless.
- Emulsifiers (INS 322 lecithin, INS 476) (moderate) — Texture stabilizers typical of processed baked goods.
- Nature-identical flavouring substances (chocolate, milk, vanilla) (moderate) — Lab-synthesized flavors standing in for real ingredients.
- EDIBLE COMMON SALT (safe) — Small amount for taste.