Twix Caramel Cookie Bars — DUMP

Munch or Dump rates Twix Caramel Cookie Bars by Twix DUMP — score 17/90.

The 'cookie' is refined flour and palm oil; the 'caramel' is corn syrup and more palm oil; the chocolate rides on PGPR. Three separate sweeteners plus a modified starch push this past treat territory into fully industrial candy. Classic craving engineering, layer by layer.

Why this verdict

• Three distinct sweeteners — sugar, corn syrup, dextrose — a sweetness system, not a recipe; multiple sweeteners detected, sweetness engineered, not simple
• Hyper-palatable snack triad detected: sugar + palm oil + enriched wheat flour, the textbook manufactured-for-craving structure
• Modified cornstarch, artificial flavor and doubled-up emulsifiers (soy lecithin twice, plus PGPR) round out a 20+ item ingredient list
• The 'caramel' layer is corn syrup, palm oil and skim milk cooked into candy — no butter-and-cream caramel here
• Nearly 14g saturated fat per 100g, heavily from palm oil, with 49g sugar per 100g riding alongside

Ingredients (10)

• Sugar (moderate) — Added for sweetness, can contribute to calorie content.
• Corn Syrup (caution) — Added sugar baked into the crust.
• Dextrose (caution) — Second added sweetener.
• Palm Oil (moderate) — Saturated-fat-heavy oil used in the crust.
• Enriched wheat flour (moderate) — Refined flour stripped of bran then fortified - the crust base.
• modified cornstarch (moderate) — Industrial thickener; NOVA 4 marker.
• PGPR (moderate) — Second emulsifier in the Twix chocolate to cut cocoa-butter cost.
• Soy lecithin (listed twice) (safe) — Emulsifier appearing in the chocolate and again in the base — benign, but doubling up shows the assembly-line build.
• Artificial Flavor) (moderate) — Lab-made flavor doing the 'creme' work.
• Cocoa butter & chocolate (safe) — The genuinely real part of the bar, confined to the outer shell.