Snack Mix Original

How it scored 75 / 100

Nutrition snapshot

Ingredients 28 listed

• 1 Wheat Flour
  Powder ground from wheat grain (Triticum aestivum). Contains starch, gluten-forming proteins (gliadin, glutenin), bran, and germ depending o…
  Low
• 2 Vegetable Oil
  Generic term covering edible oils extracted from plant sources (soybean, canola, corn, sunflower, palm, etc.).
  Low
• 3 Clarified Butter
  Butter from which milk solids and water have been removed, leaving nearly pure butterfat (also known as ghee in clarified form).
  Low
• 4 Salt
  Sodium chloride (NaCl), a crystalline mineral compound composed of roughly 40% sodium and 60% chloride by mass.
  Low
• 5 Cane Sugar
  Sucrose (a disaccharide of glucose and fructose) crystallized from sugar cane juice; chemically identical to beet sugar.
  Moderate
• 6 Yeast
  Single-celled fungus, primarily Saccharomyces cerevisiae, used in fermentation and baking. A whole-food microorganism with millennia of food…
  Safe
• 7 Malt Syrup
  Sweet syrup produced from sprouted (malted) barley, containing maltose, glucose, and dextrins.
  Low
• 8 Onion
  The edible bulb of Allium cepa L., a widely cultivated vegetable in the Allium family that also includes garlic, shallots, and leeks.
  Safe
• 9 Cheddar
  Hard cow's milk cheese with FDA standard of identity (21 CFR 133.113); aged from a few months to several years.
  Safe
• 10 Paprika
  Ground spice from dried Capsicum annuum peppers.
  Safe
• 11 Sodium Hydrogen Carbonate
  Sodium hydrogen carbonate (sodium bicarbonate, NaHCO3), commonly known as baking soda.
  Low
• 12 Garlic
  Allium sativum, a bulbous plant whose cloves are rich in organosulfur compounds — most notably allicin (formed when garlic is crushed) — plu…
  Safe
• 13 Cream
  The fat-rich liquid separated from milk. FDA standards of identity (21 CFR 131.150 / 131.155 / 131.157) classify by milkfat content: heavy c…
  Safe
• 14 Barley Malt Extract
  Concentrated extract of malted barley (Dutch: gerstemoutextract); thick syrup made by mashing malted barley and concentrating the wort.
  Low
• 15 Allspice
  Dried unripe berries of Pimenta dioica, a spice tasting reminiscent of cloves, cinnamon, and nutmeg.
  Safe
• 16 Soured Milk
  Milk that has been intentionally fermented or acidified with bacterial cultures (or vinegar/lemon juice for home use).
  Low
• 17 Nonfat Dry Milk Extract
  An ingredient derived from nonfat dry milk (skimmed dried cow's milk) - typically a milk solids ingredient.
  Low
• 18 Celery Seed
  Dried seeds of celery (Apium graveolens) used as a spice.
  Low
• 19 Annatto
  Natural carotenoid pigments (bixin, norbixin) extracted from seeds of the Bixa orellana tree.
  Low
• 20 Enzyme
  Industrial food enzyme — protein catalysts derived from plants, animals, or microorganisms (often via fermentation), added to food to perfor…
  Low
• 21 Sunflower Oil
  Edible vegetable oil pressed from the seeds of Helianthus annuus, typically high in linoleic acid (omega-6) or, in high-oleic varieties, ole…
  Low
• 22 Canola Oil
  Edible oil pressed from low-erucic-acid varieties of Brassica napus or B. campestris (rapeseed). Refined, bleached, deodorized, and standard…
  Low
• 23 Tapioca Syrup
  Sweet syrup produced by enzymatic hydrolysis of tapioca (cassava) starch into glucose and other saccharides.
  Low
• 24 Malt Extract
  Concentrate produced by water extraction of malted barley; contains maltose, other sugars, amino acids, and B-vitamins.
  Low
• 25 Milk
  Lacteal secretion from cows or other domesticated ruminants (goats, sheep). Contains water, lactose, milk fat, casein and whey proteins, vit…
  Low
• 26 Lactic Ferments
  Live lactic-acid-producing bacterial cultures (typically Lactobacillus, Lactococcus, Streptococcus thermophilus, Leuconostoc) added to milk …
  Low
• 27 Sea Salt
  Sodium chloride (NaCl) obtained by evaporating seawater. Chemically identical to mined/refined salt, with trace minerals depending on source…
  Low
• 28 Colour
  Generic ingredient term covering any of dozens of permitted colour additives — synthetic dyes (e.g. tartrazine E102, allura red E129, brilli…
  Low