Cacao Bean Plant-Based Shake

How it scored 85 / 100

Nutrition snapshot

Ingredients 17 listed

• 1 Almond Milk
  Plant-based beverage made by blending almonds with water and straining; commercial versions often add stabilizers, calcium, vitamins, and sw…
  Low
• 2 Cocoa Powder
  Cocoa powder is the dry, defatted solid of cacao beans.
  Safe
• 3 Evaporated Cane Juice
  A sweetener produced by evaporating sugar cane juice; chemically nearly identical to sucrose. FDA considers the term misleading and asks man…
  Low
• 4 Monk Fruit Extract
  High-intensity natural sweetener obtained from Siraitia grosvenorii (luo han guo) fruit; primary sweet compounds are mogrosides.
  Low
• 5 Sunflower Lecithin
  Sunflower lecithin is a phospholipid mixture extracted from sunflower seeds.
  Low
• 6 Cocoa
  Powder produced from roasted, ground cocoa beans (Theobroma cacao) with most of the cocoa butter removed.
  Safe
• 7 Vanilla Extract
  Vanilla extract is a solution of vanilla bean compounds in ethanol and water.
  Safe
• 8 Cinnamon
  Ground bark of trees in the Cinnamomum genus (typically C. verum or C. cassia).
  Safe
• 9 Sea Salt
  Sodium chloride (NaCl) obtained by evaporating seawater. Chemically identical to mined/refined salt, with trace minerals depending on source…
  Low
• 10 Locust Bean Gum
  Galactomannan polysaccharide extracted from seeds of the carob tree (Ceratonia siliqua).
  Low
• 11 Gellan Gum
  Gellan gum (E418), a high-molecular-weight polysaccharide produced by fermentation with Sphingomonas elodea.
  Low
• 12 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
• 13 Water
  Water intended for human consumption; the most common ingredient in processed foods and beverages. Bottled water is regulated as a food unde…
  Safe
• 14 Almond
  Edible seed of the Prunus dulcis tree; tree nut.
  Low
• 15 Rice Protein
  Plant-based protein isolate or concentrate from rice (typically brown rice).
  Low
• 16 Pea Protein
  Plant protein isolated from yellow split peas (Pisum sativum) by wet or dry processing.
  Low
• 17 Hemp Protein
  Protein powder derived from hemp seeds (Cannabis sativa L.), containing approximately 30-50% protein along with fiber, healthy fats, and min…
  Safe