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Trader Joe's 72% Cacao Dark Chocolate Chips

72% Cacao Dark Chocolate Chips

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Is Trader Joe's 72% Cacao Dark Chocolate Chips healthy?

Trader Joe's 72% Cacao Dark Chocolate Chips scores 90/100 on Tallow — our clean 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.

What is in Trader Joe's 72% Cacao Dark Chocolate Chips?

Trader Joe's 72% Cacao Dark Chocolate Chips lists 4 ingredients, starting with Unsweetened Chocolate, Vanilla Extract, Sunflower Lecithin and Cane Sugar. Ingredients are listed in descending order by weight, so the first few make up most of what you are eating.

Does Trader Joe's 72% Cacao Dark Chocolate Chips contain seed oils?

No. Nothing in Trader Joe's 72% Cacao Dark Chocolate Chips’s ingredient list matches a seed oil — canola, soybean, corn, cottonseed, grapeseed, sunflower, safflower, rice bran or peanut oil, or an unspecified "vegetable oil".

How processed is Trader Joe's 72% Cacao Dark Chocolate Chips?

Trader Joe's 72% Cacao Dark Chocolate Chips is NOVA group 4: ultra-processed. That is the top of the scale and the classification the score penalises most heavily.

How does Trader Joe's 72% Cacao Dark Chocolate Chips compare to other chocolate?

At 90/100 Trader Joe's 72% Cacao Dark Chocolate Chips sits in our top band, among the better chocolate we have scored. A higher-scoring option in chocolate is Hu Organic Hazelnut Butter + Hazelnut Crunch Milk Chocolate at 100/100.

Is Trader Joe's 72% Cacao Dark Chocolate Chips organic?

Trader Joe's 72% Cacao Dark Chocolate Chips is not certified organic in our data.

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