Instant Chocolate Pudding & Pie Filling

Breakdown

Ultra-processed · 6 ingredients to avoid

Meijer Instant Chocolate Pudding & Pie Filling 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 0g fiber, 0g protein and 20g 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.

Meijer Instant Chocolate Pudding & Pie Filling lists 18 ingredients, starting with Sugar, Modified Food Starch, Cocoa Powder (Processed With Alkali), Disodium Phosphate and Tetrasodium Pyrophosphate. Ingredients are listed in descending order by weight, so the first few make up most of what you are eating.

100 kcal per serving, or 357 kcal per 100g. Calories are only part of the picture — Tallow scores Meijer Instant Chocolate Pudding & Pie Filling on what the ingredients are, not how many calories they carry.

At 5/100 Meijer Instant Chocolate Pudding & Pie Filling scores worse than most baking ingredients we have scored. A higher-scoring option in baking ingredients is King Arthur Baking Company Organic Unbleached All-Purpose Flour at 100/100.