Reese’s Puffs

How it scored 38 / 100

Nutrition snapshot

Ingredients 18 listed

• 1 Corn
  Edible cereal grain from Zea mays.
  Safe
• 2 Sugar
  Sucrose, a disaccharide of glucose and fructose, refined from sugarcane or sugar beets.
  Moderate
• 3 Dextrose
  D-glucose, a simple sugar (monosaccharide). Produced commercially by complete enzymatic or acid hydrolysis of corn starch.
  Moderate
• 4 Cornmeal
  Coarse flour ground from dried whole corn (Zea mays) kernels.
  Safe
• 5 Corn Syrup
  A sweet, nutritive saccharide mixture produced from corn starch hydrolysate. The high-fructose form (HFCS) contains approximately 42% or 55%…
  Moderate
• 6 Canola Oil
  Edible oil pressed from low-erucic-acid varieties of Brassica napus or B. campestris (rapeseed). Refined, bleached, deodorized, and standard…
  Low
• 7 Salt
  Sodium chloride (NaCl), a crystalline mineral compound composed of roughly 40% sodium and 60% chloride by mass.
  Low
• 8 Cocoa Powder
  Cocoa powder is the dry, defatted solid of cacao beans.
  Safe
• 9 Caramel
  Caramel: a dark colorant made by controlled heat treatment of food-grade carbohydrates; four classes (E150a-d) differ by manufacturing react…
  Moderate
• 10 Trisodium Phosphate
  Trisodium phosphate (TSP), an inorganic sodium salt of phosphoric acid.
  Moderate
• 11 Natural Flavouring
  A regulatory umbrella term (21 CFR 101.22) for flavor extracts derived from spices, fruit, vegetable, herb, bark, root, leaf, meat, seafood,…
  Low
• 12 Vitamin E
  Fat-soluble vitamin (alpha-tocopherol and related tocopherols/tocotrienols); essential nutrient and antioxidant.
  Low
• 13 Peanut
  Edible legume seed of the Arachis hypogaea plant.
  Low
• 14 monoglycerides —
• 15 Peanut Oil
  Edible vegetable oil pressed or extracted from peanuts (Arachis hypogaea).
  Low
• 16 Molasses
  Thick, dark syrup byproduct of sugar refining from cane or sugar beet.
  Low
• 17 Corn Starch
  Starch isolated from the endosperm of corn kernels. Composed of amylose and amylopectin (glucose polymers).
  Low
• 18 Tocopherol-Rich Extract
  Tocopherol-rich extract — a natural extract of mixed tocopherols (vitamin E forms) from vegetable oils, used as a natural antioxidant.
  Low