Old Fashioned Baked Cherry Pie

Breakdown

Ultra-processed · 5 ingredients to avoid

Hostess Old Fashioned Baked Cherry Pie 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. 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 Old Fashioned Baked Cherry Pie lists 12 ingredients, starting with Wheat Flour Bleached, Cherries, Water, Vegetable Oils (Palm and/Or Soybean Oil) and Sugar. Ingredients are listed in descending order by weight, so the first few make up most of what you are eating.

At 5/100 Hostess Old Fashioned Baked Cherry Pie scores worse than most pastries & muffins we have scored. A higher-scoring option in pastries & muffins is Pearl Milling Company Organic Pancakes at 100/100.