Chocolate Fudge Cake
Processing
4
Ultra-processed
Group 4 of 4 on the NOVA scale
Additives listed
5
0 we grade moderate or higher
4 of them not yet assessed here
Sugars per 100g
7.50g
Medium
UK FSA front of pack threshold
Three separate readings, kept apart on purpose. This is not a score, and none of it says this product is harmful.
Additives (5)
This label lists 3 emulsifiers and 2 raising agents.
E471
Mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids
Emulsifier
What it is. Fat derived emulsifiers, closely related to ordinary dietary fats.
Why it is used. One of the most used additives in food: bread, margarine, ice cream, cakes and sauces.
What the evidence says. The body handles these much as it handles other fats, and EFSA's re-evaluation raised no safety concern at the levels used. They sit in the same broad emulsifier and gut microbiome research question as the others, which remains unsettled.
Permitted without a numerical limit. The fat source is not always stated, which matters for some diets rather than for safety.
Assessed against EFSA. Full entry for E471
Also on the label, not assessed here yet
- E450 Diphosphates raising agent
- E475 Polyglycerol esters of fatty acids emulsifier
- E481 Sodium stearoyl-2-lactylate emulsifier
- E500 Sodium carbonates raising agent
Names and jobs come from the register of additives permitted in Great Britain, which we have not finished transcribing: a code shown without a name is a gap in our coverage, not a finding that it is unapproved. Naming one is not grading it either. Full detail appears only where we have an assessment against a named authority, so all of this describes our coverage rather than these additives. Most are common and low concern.
Ingredients
Sugar Wheatflour nut contains Gluten (with Wheatflour, allergy Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin) - Pasteurised Egg Glucose Syrup - Milk . O Chocolate (7%) (Sugar Cocoa Mass Dried Whole 5 Milk Cocoa Butter Dried Skimmed Milk - Milk Fat Lactose (Milk) Emulsifier: Soya Lecithin) Butter (Milk) Rapeseed Oil Invert Sugar Syrup - Fat Reduced Cocoa Powder - Cocoa Mass - 9 . . Humectant: Glycerol Belgian Milk Chocolate (3%) (Sugar Cocoa Mass Cocoa Butter Dried Whole Milk Dried Skimmed Milk Emulsifier: Soya . • • 9 Lecithin Natural Vanilla Flavouring) Buttermilk - Dextrose Dried Glucose Syrup Single Cream (Milk) Dried Skimmed Milk Raising Agent: Sodium Bicarbonate, E450 Cornflour - Salt 1 Emulsifier: E481, E471, E475 Rowan Extract - Natural Vanilla Flavouring. • 9 For allergens see ingredients in bold. Not
As printed on the pack, in the producer's own order: ingredients are listed by weight, so what comes first is most of what is in it. E numbers link to their assessment where we have one.