Soy Milk (Chocolate) — DUMP
Munch or Dump rates Soy Milk (Chocolate) by Sahm In International Company DUMP — score 20/90.
A chocolate soy drink built on three different sweeteners, refined corn oil, artificial flavor and stacked emulsifiers. It's engineered sugar-water with a splash of soy.
Why this verdict
- Three separate sweeteners stacked up front: high fructose corn syrup, sugar and low-DE corn syrup
- High fructose corn syrup is the #3 ingredient, ahead of cocoa and oil
- Refined corn oil plus artificial flavor add empty, lab-made calories
- Two glycerin-ester emulsifiers and arabic gum keep this slurry stable, a hallmark of ultra-processing
- NOVA 4 ultra-processed: more engineering than nourishment
Ingredients (12)
- Filtered Water (safe) — Water for consistency. Inert.
- soybeans (safe) — The one genuinely nutritious ingredient, providing plant protein.
- High Fructose Corn Syrup (concerning) — Industrially processed sweetener linked to fatty liver and metabolic strain when consumed regularly; flatly contradicts the 'all natural' positioning.
- Sugar (concerning) — Added refined sugar, listed high - spikes blood sugar with no nutrition.
- Low DE Corn Syrup (concerning) — A third refined sweetener/bulking syrup; three sweeteners together spike the sugar load.
- cocoa powder (safe) — Provides flavour and a little antioxidant content; present in small amount.
- corn oil (moderate) — Refined seed oil adding empty fat calories and omega-6 load.
- calcium carbonate (safe) — Added calcium for fortification; well tolerated.
- Arabic Gum (moderate) — Stabilizer/thickener; benign on its own but a marker of a built formula.
- Glycerin Esters of Fatty Acids (moderate) — Emulsifier used to hold the oil and water together; appears twice, signaling heavy processing.
- Artificial Flavor) (moderate) — Lab-made flavoring with no nutritional value — out of place in a 'finest ingredients' bar.
- Salt (moderate) — Added sodium for flavour.