Trader Joe's Peppermint Hot Chocolate

Breakdown

Ultra-processed · 5 ingredients to avoid

Trader Joe's Peppermint Hot Chocolate scores 14/100 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.

Trader Joe's Peppermint Hot Chocolate lists 18 ingredients, starting with Sugar, Chocolate Liquor, Cocoa Butter, Natural Vanilla Flavor and Cane Sugar. Ingredients are listed in descending order by weight, so the first few make up most of what you are eating.

At 14/100 Trader Joe's Peppermint Hot Chocolate scores worse than most hot sauce we have scored. A higher-scoring option in hot sauce is Louisiana Original Hot Sauce at 95/100.