16/23 ingredients recognized
How we scored this
PureScore is the stored composite of ingredient safety (40%), formulation quality (30%), contaminant risk (20%) and label transparency (10%). This label matched 16 of 23 listed ingredients. Unmatched names never wear an Excellent stamp. Methodology
Caramel macchiato gourmet cupcakes
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Flagged concerns
vegetable oil shortening
Generic refined seed-oil blend (often soybean/canola); high omega-6; heavily processed.
canola oil
Industrial seed oil; very high omega-6; hexane-extracted and heavily refined; promotes inflammatory imbalance.
corn syrup
Pure glucose; spikes blood sugar; contributes to metabolic disorders.
mono - and diglycerides
Emulsifier; can contain trans fats not captured on the nutrition label; ultra-processed marker.
artificial flavor
Catch-all for synthetic flavor chemicals; regulatory threshold does not address cumulative exposure
bleached enriched wheat flour
Stripped of nutrients; high glycemic; bleaching may leave chemical residue.
sugar
High glycemic index; promotes inflammation and metabolic disease.
wheat gluten
Isolated wheat protein; can drive gut inflammation; removed from bran and germ
Full ingredient list
Icing sugar (sugar, cornstarch), caramel filling (water sugar, corn syrup, sweetened condensed milk [concentrated milk, sugar, lactose], modified cornstarch, canola oil, modified palm kernel oil, butter [cream, salt], salt, sodium acid sulphate, potassium sorbate [preservative], gellan gum, color [caramel, fd&c yellow #5, fd&c yellow #6, titanium dioxide]), sugar, water, bleached enriched wheat flour (wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), vegetable oil shortening (canola oil, palm oil, fractionated palm oil, fractionated palm kernel oil, monoglycerides, polysorbate 60), eggs, soybean and/or canola oil, butter (cream, salt), invert sugar modified cornstarch, skim milk powder, whey (milk), corn syrup, leavening blend (sodium acid pyrophosphate, sodium bicarbonate, cornstarch, monocalcium phosphate, calcium sulfate), soybean lecithin, wheat gluten, natural and artificial flavor, mono - and diglycerides, salt, datem, color (caramel, beta carotene).