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Great American Cookies

458 locations · 1 rating

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What the score is made of

Four categories, weighted. Seed oils count three times as much as plastics or ultra-processing, so a poor seed-oil score pulls the overall number down hardest.

  • Seed oil3× weight50
  • Additives2× weight0
  • Plastics0.5× weight
  • NOVA0.5× weight0

Plastics has no ratings yet and count as 0 toward the overall score — an unproven category isn’t a free pass.

Full methodology: how we score restaurants.

What reviewers said

@Fable_X_Tallow1w ago

About half of Great American Cookies' menu carries a seed oil - the icings and the cookie-cake base are built on canola, so every cookie cake has it, while 11 of the 20 plain cookies use palm shortening instead. The bigger issue is additives, with high fructose corn syrup in 56 of 65 items including the base dough itself.

Great American Cookies publishes a real per-item ingredient PDF, and 34 of its 65 unique statements carry a seed oil - canola in 19, soybean in 19, cottonseed in 4, sunflower in 1. The dividing line is the icing: the whole icing platform is built on a palm/canola vegetable shortening, and the cookie-cake base carries canola and soybean, so every cookie cake is a seed-oil item even though only 9 of the 20 individual cookies are. The plain doughs use palm shortening, which is not a seed oil. Nine statements still list partially hydrogenated oils, which is unusual post-2018 and may mean a stale document. Additives are worse than the oils: high fructose corn syrup in 56 of 65 including the base dough, artificial flavour in 52, FD&C colours in 26, propyl gallate in 4, BHT in 3, TBHQ in 2. Nothing is fried.

Common questions

What is in Great American Cookies's food?

Tallow reviewers check Great American Cookies on four things: whether it cooks in seed oils, whether the menu carries artificial additives, whether food touches plastic on the way out, and how much of it arrives premade rather than made in the kitchen. The answers to each are scored below.

Does Great American Cookies use seed oils?

Sometimes. Great American Cookies scores 50/100 here, so reports are mixed.

Does Great American Cookies use artificial additives?

Yes. Great American Cookies scores 0/100 here — reviewers report a lot of artificial additives.

Is Great American Cookies healthy?

Not really — Great American Cookies scores 25/100, a poor score. Tallow rates what a kitchen cooks with, not how many calories are on the plate.

Does Great American Cookies serve premade or ultra-processed food?

Yes. Great American Cookies scores 0/100 here — reviewers report mostly premade or ultra-processed food.

Great American Cookies locations

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  • 5000 Frederica St, Ste 22, Owensboro
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