Food · Little Debbie
Little Debbie Cosmic Brownies
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Weak nutrition · Ultra-processed · per 100 g
Weak nutrition and a factory recipe. Fine as a rare treat — not as a habit.
Worse than 8 in 10 packs in Snacks. The swap is on this aisle.
A 28 g handful is about 127 calories and 0.2 g of salt — before you finish the bag.
Council note
Ultra-processed — flavours, extras, a list a kitchen would not write. The colour (Tartrazine) is cosmetic, not food. A dietitian would not make this a weekday habit. Worse than 8 in 10 packs in Snacks. The swap is on this aisle.
Watch-outs
Artificial colour
Tartrazine
The pack
Weak nutrition and a factory recipe. Fine as a rare treat — not as a habit.
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.
- A weak nutrition box cannot be rated Good
- 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
Weak
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
Weak nutrition and a factory recipe. Fine as a rare treat — not as a habit.
Poor · 33/100 · nutrition weak
- Nutrition quality20/100
- Ingredients78/100
- How processed16/100
- Organic0/100
What pulled it down
A weak nutrition box cannot be rated Good
Sugars, salt or saturated fat dominate this box. Poor at best — a treat, not a habit.
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 nutrition box
About 12 teaspoons of sugar in 100 g. Salt is moderate. Fat is high. Sugars, salt or saturated fat dominate.
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.
Tartrazine
-14Azo dye linked to hyperactivity in sensitive children. EFSA ADI 7.5 mg/kg.
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 | 1900 kJ |
|---|---|
| Sugars | 48 gHigh Very sweet — about 12 teaspoons of sugar in 100 g. |
| Saturated fat | 8 gHigh |
| Salt | 0.6 gMedium A moderate amount of salt. |
| Fibre | 2 g |
| Protein | 3 g |
Better neighbours
Same aisle, cleaner number. Ranked by how close the job is — not by who paid.
Ingredients
Sugar, corn syrup, enriched flour, palm oil, cocoa, soy lecithin, colours.
TartrazineE102
−14Linked to restlessness in some children. You don’t need yellow food to be yellow.
Extra care for children
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.
Cocoa
No concernA keep. Fat content varies; the bar’s sugar is the usual snag.
LecithinE322
No concernGenerally fine. Soy lecithin can matter if you are highly soy-allergic.
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