Wegmans Mini Cheese Filled Chocolate Covered Cannolis, 4 Pack — BULLSHIT
Munch or Dump rates Wegmans Mini Cheese Filled Chocolate Covered Cannolis, 4 Pack by Wegmans BULLSHIT — score 0/90.
The ricotta filling is honest. The 'decadent dark chocolate' is not — the coating is sugar, palm kernel oil and alkalized cocoa with nonfat milk, and zero cocoa butter. When the headline claim isn't in the ingredient list, we call it what it is.
Why this verdict
- 'Hand dipped in decadent dark chocolate' — the coating is a sugar-first, palm-kernel-oil compound coating, not chocolate: no cocoa butter anywhere in it
- There's nonfat milk in the 'dark' chocolate — the claim fails on both words
- Palm oil and palm kernel oil appear four separate times across the label
- The ricotta filling really is milk, vinegar and salt — which makes the fake-chocolate shell more annoying, not less
- Sugar-led coating plus enriched flour plus repeated 'natural flavor': dessert engineering under an artisan bakery story
Ingredients (10)
- Chocolate Coating (sugar, palm kernel oil, cocoa) (avoid) — Sugar-first compound coating; palm kernel oil stands in for cocoa butter, so it isn't legally chocolate.
- Palm Kernel Oil (caution) — Highly saturated refined fat used to keep the chocolate coating snappy
- Palm Oil (concerning) — High in saturated fats and environmentally concerning.
- Enriched wheat flour (moderate) — Refined white flour — fast-digesting starch is the backbone of the chip.
- Sugar (moderate) — Commonly used sweetener but contributes empty calories.
- ricotta cheese (safe) — Milk, vinegar, salt — the genuinely honest part of this label.
- Soy Lecithin (moderate) — An emulsifier derived from soybeans, generally considered safe but indicative of processing.
- Natural flavor (moderate) — Undisclosed flavoring; natural-sourced but still a lab-blended ingredient.
- Chocolate Chips (with cocoa butter) (moderate) — Ironically, the chips inside the filling are real chocolate — the coating outside isn't.
- eggs (safe) — Real eggs — the most honest ingredient in the box.