Sunfeast Dark Fantasy Bourbon — DUMP

Munch or Dump rates Sunfeast Dark Fantasy Bourbon by Sunfeast DUMP — score 20/90.

Refined flour and sugar (34%) fried in palm oil, then dressed up with artificial colours, artificial chocolate flavour and stacked emulsifiers. Real chocolate is 0.1%.

Why this verdict

• Sugar is 34% - the second ingredient, ahead of everything but refined flour
• Refined maida + sugar + refined palm oil = the hyper-palatable triad built for craving
• Artificial colours plus artificial vanilla and chocolate flavouring
• Two emulsifiers stacked (mono- and diglycerides plus lecithin)
• Cocoa solids only 2.1% and real chocolate just 0.1%

Ingredients (11)

• Refined Wheat Flour (Maida) (concerning) — Stripped white flour, no fiber, spikes blood sugar; the #1 ingredient
• Sugar (34%) (concerning) — Second ingredient at a third of the biscuit - added sugar this high drives craving and blood-sugar spikes.
• Refined palm oil (moderate) — Cheap refined oil high in saturated fat.
• Colours (INS 150-class / added colours) (concerning) — Added colours exist only to make it look richer than it is - a marker of ultra-processing.
• Starch (moderate) — Added refined starch for structure, empty carbs
• Cocoa solids (2.1%) (safe) — The only real cocoa here, and it is a minor 2.1% - far behind sugar.
• Raising Agents (INS 503, INS 500) (safe) — Standard leavening agents, generally recognised as safe.
• Artificial flavouring substances (vanilla, chocolate) (concerning) — Lab-made flavour standing in for the real thing the pack advertises.
• Emulsifiers (mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids, lecithin) (moderate) — Two stacked emulsifiers to bind fat and water - a hallmark of industrial processing.
• Plain chocolate (0.1%) (safe) — The 'real chocolate' from the marketing - a trace 0.1%.
• Iodized Salt (safe) — Common salt; iodine is a plus in small amounts.