Food · Trader Joe's
Trader Joe's Speculoos Cookie Butter
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Low nutrition · Ultra-processed · per 100 g
Ultra-processed — built with extras a kitchen wouldn’t use. Better as a rare treat, not a Good rating.
Middle of Spreads & oils. 17 of 23 on our shelves score higher.
This pack is on an ongoing recall
Class II. Foreign objects are glass varying in size from 1-3cm long and 2-4mm wide.
Council note
Ultra-processed — flavours, extras, a list a kitchen would not write. A dietitian would not make this a weekday habit. Middle of Spreads & oils. 17 of 23 on our shelves score higher.
The pack
Ultra-processed — built with extras a kitchen wouldn’t use. Better as a rare treat, not a Good rating.
How often
Rarely
Who it’s for
Anyone comparing similar products in this aisle.
Skip if
It clashes with the notes you keep in your profile — allergens, diet, or extras you asked us to flag.
- This nutrition box cannot be rated Excellent
- Ultra-processed food cannot be rated Good
- Two red lights on the box cannot be rated Good
At a glance
How often
Rarely
Nutrition box
Low
How processed
Ultra-processed
Extras
2 additives
Planet
Heavier footprint · 40/100
Organic
Not organic
Built in a factory with additives, flavours, or refined extras. Cannot be rated Good — a rare treat, not a habit.
Palm oil, heavy processing, or farming choices that cost more than they give back.
No shelf price logged yet. When a shopper posts a receipt to Open Prices, it lands here.
Why this number
Ultra-processed — built with extras a kitchen wouldn’t use. Better as a rare treat, not a Good rating.
Poor · 42/100 · nutrition low
- Nutrition quality32/100
- Ingredients92/100
- How processed16/100
- Organic0/100
What pulled it down
This nutrition box cannot be rated Excellent
This is a treat pattern. It can only scrape into low Good if the list is clean and it is not ultra-processed.
Ultra-processed food cannot be rated Good
A factory recipe — flavours, colours, or many additives — cannot be rated Good. A sometimes treat, not a daily habit.
Two red lights on the box cannot be rated Good
Two red lights on salt, sugar or saturated fat keep this at Poor, not Good.
A weak-ish nutrition box
About 8.8 teaspoons of sugar in 100 g. Salt is moderate. Fat is high. A treat pattern.
Ultra-processed
Built in a factory with additives, flavours, or refined extras. A growing pile of research ties a diet of these to poorer health — not because one biscuit is poison, but because the pattern crowds out real food.
Palm oil
-8High in saturated fat. Process contaminants (3-MCPD, glycidyl esters) in refined oils.
Nutrition is half the number. Ingredients a quarter. How processed a fifth. Organic is a small bonus — it cannot rescue a sugary drink or a nitrite ham. How this compares to Nutri-Score
Nutrition · per 100 g
| Energy | 2420 kJ |
|---|---|
| Sugars | 35 gHigh Very sweet — about 8.8 teaspoons of sugar in 100 g. |
| Saturated fat | 8 gHigh |
| Salt | 0.6 gMedium A moderate amount of salt. |
| Fibre | 1 g |
| Protein | 3 g |
Better neighbours
Same aisle, cleaner number. Ranked by how close the job is — not by who paid.
Ingredients
Speculoos cookies (wheat flour, sugar, palm oil, candy sugar syrup, soy flour, salt, cinnamon), soybean oil, sugar, soy lecithin, sodium bicarbonate.
Sugar
Low concernNot a toxin. A teaspoon is a teaspoon. The issue is how many hide in drinks and breakfast.
Palm oil
−8High in saturated fat. The other cost is landscape. A daily chocolate spread is both stories at once.
Wheat flour
No concernContains gluten. Otherwise a staple.
LecithinE322
No concernGenerally fine. Soy lecithin can matter if you are highly soy-allergic.
Sodium carbonatesE500
No concernNo toxicological concern. It’s the cupboard jar.
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