Chocolate Cake Twinkies Snack Cakes

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Ultra-processed · 10 ingredients to avoid

Hostess Chocolate Cake Twinkies Snack Cakes scores 5/100 on Tallow — our avoid band. That number comes from what is on the label: the ingredients, how processed it is, and what it is packaged in. Per serving it carries 1g fiber, 3g protein and 29g sugar. It is not a verdict on your diet — Tallow does not weigh calories, portion size or how often you eat it, so a high score means the ingredients are clean, not that the food is unlimited.

Hostess Chocolate Cake Twinkies Snack Cakes lists 20 ingredients, starting with Cess % Dv Total Fat 9g 12% 4.5g Saturated Fat 4g 20% 2g trans Fat Og Cholesterol 30mg 11% 15mg Nutrition Facts 5 Servings Per Container Serving Size Calories 2 Cakes 2 Cakes 1 Cake 270 130 Ingredients: Sugar, En Wheat Flour, Malted Reduced Iron Or Ferr Mononitrate, Riboflav High Fructose Corn Sy Cocoa Egg and Contains Processed With Alka Starch Modified. Ingredients are listed in descending order by weight, so the first few make up most of what you are eating.

270 kcal per serving, or 351 kcal per 100g. Calories are only part of the picture — Tallow scores Hostess Chocolate Cake Twinkies Snack Cakes on what the ingredients are, not how many calories they carry.

At 5/100 Hostess Chocolate Cake Twinkies Snack Cakes scores worse than most canned goods we have scored. A higher-scoring option in canned goods is Trader Joe's Organic Garbanzo Beans Made with Sea Salt at 98/100.