Pure Butter Shortbread — TREAT

Munch or Dump rates Pure Butter Shortbread by :ratio TREAT — score 45/90.

A genuinely simple four-ingredient shortbread, but it's still butter and sugar in a cookie shape. Clean list, indulgent reality.

Why this verdict

• Butter is ~32% of the recipe, so it's very high in saturated fat
• Refined wheat flour plus added sugar, low nutritional value
• Calorie-dense for the portion, easy to overeat
• Simple, recognizable ingredients with no artificial additives

Ingredients (4)

• Wheat flour (fortified: calcium carbonate, iron, niacin, thiamine) (moderate) — Refined flour, the fortification (iron, B vitamins, calcium) is standard and a small plus, but it's still a low-fiber refined carb that spikes blood sugar.
• Butter (milk) 32% (moderate) — Real dairy butter, not a refined seed oil, which is better, but at a third of the recipe it loads the cookie with saturated fat and calories.
• Sugar (concerning) — Added refined sugar, listed high - spikes blood sugar with no nutrition.
• Salt (moderate) — Added sodium for flavour.