Frozen foods
Smucker's Uncrustables Chocolate Flavored Hazelnut Spread Sandwich
Score
- Ultra-processed
- High in saturated fat
- Contains added sugars
- Contains emulsifiers studied for gut effects
- Contains seed oils
- Contains artificial flavors
- Contains whole grains
Why it scores 30
Smucker's Uncrustables Chocolate Flavored Hazelnut Spread Sandwich scores 30 out of 100 (Poor) under GoodSwap’s published rules. What moved the score most:
- minus 20 points Sugar: An added sugar. Strong
- minus 18 points Ultra-processed (NOVA 4): Classified NOVA 4: made with industrial ingredients and additives. Strong
- minus 11 points Sugars 21.2 g / 100 g: Very high in sugar. Strong
Every line of the math is on The Receipt below, with its evidence tier and sources.
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The same kind of product, at least 10 points higher, sold in the US. Never paid placements.
The Receipt
Chocolate Flavored Hazelnut Spread Sandwich
Ingredients
- Sugar minus 20 points
- Soybean oil minus 2.5 points
- Mono- and diglycerides minus 2.5 points
- DATEM minus 1.5 points
- Calcium peroxide minus 1.5 points
- Vegetable oil (unspecified) minus 1.5 points
- Sunflower lecithin minus 0.5 points
- Artificial flavors minus 0.5 points
Processing
- Ultra-processed (NOVA 4) minus 18 points
- 2 kinds of ultra-processing markers minus 1.5 points
Nutrition per 100 g
- Sugars 21.2 g / 100 g minus 11 points
- Saturated fat 5.8 g / 100 g minus 5 points
- Salt 0.8 g / 100 g minus 3 points
- Energy 221 kcal / 100 g minus 1 points
100 − 70 = 30
Can’t score above 79. Contains sugar, an ingredient of high concern. [1][2][3]
Can’t score above 79. High in saturated fat (above the front-of-pack "high" level). [15]
Nutrition per 100 g
| Energy | 221 kcal |
|---|---|
| Fat | 17.3 g |
| Saturated fat | 5.8 g |
| Trans fat | 0 g |
| Carbohydrates | 53.8 g |
| Sugars | 21.2 g |
| Added sugars | 10.5 g |
| Fiber | 1.9 g |
| Protein | 7.7 g |
| Salt | 0.8 g |
Serving: 1 sandwich (52 g)
Ingredients
- Bread: enriched unbleached flour (wheat flour, malted barley flour, niacin, ferrous sulfate, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid)
- water
- unbleached whole wheat flour
- sugar (high concern)
- yeast
- soybean oil
- salt
- dough conditioners (distilled mono and diglycerides, datem, enzymes)
- vegetable oils (palm and canola)
- hazelnuts
- cocoa processed with alkali and cocoa
- skim milk
- whey powder
- sunflower lecithin
- vanillin (artificial flavor)
Label text, as published
Bread: enriched unbleached flour (wheat flour, malted barley flour, niacin, ferrous sulfate, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), water, unbleached whole wheat flour, sugar, yeast, soybean oil, contains 2% or less of: salt, dough conditioners (distilled mono and diglycerides, datem, enzymes [with wheat starch, ascorbic acid, calcium peroxide]). chocolate flavored hazelnut spread: sugar, vegetable oils (palm and canola), hazelnuts, cocoa processed with alkali and cocoa, skim milk, whey powder, contains 2% or less of: sunflower lecithin, vanillin (artificial flavor).
Allergens and diets
Contains: Milk, Tree nuts, Soy, Wheat, Gluten
- Not vegan
- Not gluten-free
- Not palm-oil-free
Always check the package: recipes change.
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Sources
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Guideline: sugars intake for adults and children
“In both adults and children, WHO recommends reducing the intake of free sugars to less than 10% of total energy intake”
who.int
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Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2025–2030
“Limit foods and beverages that include artificial flavors, petroleum-based dyes, artificial preservatives, and low-calorie non-nutritive sweeteners.”
cdn.realfood.gov
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Added and free sugars should be as low as possible
“Sugar consumption is a known cause of dental caries.”
efsa.europa.eu
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“replacement of saturated fat in the diet with linoleic acid effectively lowers serum cholesterol but does not support the hypothesis that this translates to a lower risk of death from coronary heart disease or all causes.”
doi.org
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“These data provide support for current recommendations to replace saturated fat with polyunsaturated fat for primary prevention of CHD.”
doi.org
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“This study found positive associations between risk of CVD and intake of five individual and two groups of food additive emulsifiers widely used in industrial foods.”
doi.org
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Re-evaluation of mono- and di-glycerides of fatty acids (E 471) as food additives
“The available studies did not raise any concern with regard to genotoxicity.”
doi.org
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2. List of Permitted Flour Treatment Agents (Lists of Permitted Food Additives)
“A.4 Azodicarbonamide n/a (a) Bread (a) Flour treatment agent (a) 45 ppm of the flour n/a”
canada.ca
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Saturated fatty acid and trans-fatty acid intake for adults and children: WHO guideline
“WHO recommends that adults and children reduce saturated fatty acid intake to 10% of total energy intake (strong recommendation).”
who.int
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“For adults, WHO recommends less than 2000 mg/day of sodium (equivalent to less than 5 g/day salt), or just under a teaspoon.”
who.int
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“Table 3: Criteria for drinks (per 100ml)”
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk
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“Greater exposure to ultra-processed food was associated with a higher risk of adverse health outcomes, especially cardiometabolic, common mental disorder, and mortality outcomes.”
doi.org
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Dietary emulsifiers impact the mouse gut microbiota promoting colitis and metabolic syndrome
“carboxymethylcellulose and polysorbate-80, induced low-grade inflammation and obesity/metabolic syndrome in wild-type hosts and promoted robust colitis in mice predisposed to this disorder.”
doi.org
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“Relative to control subjects, CMC consumption modestly increased postprandial abdominal discomfort and perturbed gut microbiota composition in a way that reduced its diversity.”
doi.org