Unibic Choco Chip Cookies — ENGINEERED
Munch or Dump rates Unibic Choco Chip Cookies by Unibic ENGINEERED — score 30/90.
Refined maida flour plus sugar (listed twice), palm oil and stacked emulsifiers make this the classic hyper-palatable triad engineered for craving, not nutrition.
Why this verdict
- Refined maida flour is the #1 ingredient — fiber stripped, fast blood-sugar spike
- Hyper-palatable triad: refined flour + added sugar + refined palm oil
- Sugar listed twice (in the chips and standalone) — high total sugar load
- Two stacked emulsifiers plus artificial vanillin flavoring
- Ultra-processed (NOVA 4), engineered for craving over nutrition
Ingredients (12)
- Refined Wheat Flour (Maida) (concerning) — Refined flour stripped of fiber and nutrients; the dominant ingredient at 78.4%, spikes blood sugar fast.
- Chocolate Chips (21%) (moderate) — Contains real cocoa solids and cocoa butter but its first ingredient is sugar, plus dextrose and emulsifiers.
- Sugar (concerning) — Added sugar, third by weight, feeds yeast and adds sweetness with no nutritional benefit.
- Edible vegetable oil (palm) (concerning) — Refined palm oil, high in saturated fat, sitting as the second-largest ingredient. Cheap fat that drives the calorie density.
- desiccated coconut (moderate) — Whole-food ingredient but high in saturated fat.
- BUTTER (moderate) — Real dairy fat; recognizable but adds to the saturated fat total.
- Milk Solids (safe) — Reconstituted dairy solids; adds some protein and calcium.
- Leavening Agents (INS 503, INS 500) (safe) — Ammonium and sodium bicarbonate; ordinary baking raising agents.
- Emulsifier (INS 322, soy lecithin) (moderate) — Soy lecithin; generally safe but part of a stacked emulsifier system typical of ultra-processed baking.
- Emulsifier (INS 476) (moderate) — Polyglycerol polyricinoleate; an industrial emulsifier stacked with lecithin, a NOVA 4 marker.
- Iodised Salt (safe) — Small amount for flavor balance; iodine is beneficial.
- Artificial Flavouring Substance (Vanillin) (moderate) — Synthetic vanilla flavoring; low risk but a sign of an engineered, not natural, product.