S&W Premium Cream Style Corn — TREAT

Munch or Dump rates S&W Premium Cream Style Corn by S & W Fine Foods Inc. TREAT — score 45/90.

Mostly corn and water, but they thicken it with modified food starch and sweeten it with added sugar instead of letting the corn stand on its own.

Why this verdict

• Added sugar in a vegetable you don't need to sweeten
• Modified food starch fakes the creamy texture instead of real corn
• NOVA-4 processed despite the short ingredient list
• Sodium added for flavor on top of the sugar

Ingredients (5)

• Corn (safe) — Whole vegetable, minor starch and fiber.
• Water (safe) — First ingredient by weight; this pudding is mostly water, not milk.
• modified food starch (moderate) — Industrial thickener used to bulk and stabilize the sauce
• Sugar (moderate) — Added sugar sitting ahead of cocoa; the main flavor driver here.
• Salt (moderate) — Ready meals tend to run salt-heavy; watch the sodium.