Act II Sour Cream & Cheese Popcorn

Act II Sour Cream & Cheese Popcorn is popped corn (60%) with refined palm oil (TBHQ), sugar, salt, spices, maltodextrin, milk solids (0.7%), hydrogenated vegetable fat, natural and nature-identical flavours, a flavour enhancer and several acids, stabilisers and an emulsifier, with cheese solids at 0.007%.

CleanPlate scores it [R][L]CD5. The C for nutrition is middling: 11.3 g fibre per 100 g; its 8.3 g of protein earns no credit because it is under 2.75 g per 100 kcal. The D for ingredients reflects a mix of whole and refined ingredients (led by popped corn, refined edible oil and sugar), with additives that cost points: carrageenan, TBHQ, flavouring and mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids. A red flag (hydrogenated fat / vanaspati (unqualified)) cuts the score by 40%. The [L] marks a hollow label promise: cheese is named on the pack but makes up only 0.007% of the product. The 5 for risk comes mainly from sodium (1000 mg per 100 g) and saturated fat (12 g per 100 g).

Popped corn 60%, refined edible oil (palmolein and palm oil) with TBHQ, sugar, iodised salt, spices (onion powder, black pepper, turmeric extract, chilli extract), maltodextrin, milk solids 0.7%, hydrogenated vegetable fat, natural and nature-identical flavour, dried glucose syrup, flavour enhancer (disodium ribonucleotides), acidity regulators, silicon dioxide, stabilisers (disodium and dipotassium orthophosphate, carrageenan), dextrose, mono- and diglycerides and cheese solids 0.007%.

Per 100 g: 496 kcal, 29 g fat of which 12 g saturated, 7.5 g sugar of which 4.7 g added, 11.3 g fibre, 8.3 g protein, 1000 mg sodium. "Hydrogenated Vegetable Fat" has no partial or fully qualifier, so it is scored as partially hydrogenated fat (red flag) even though the panel shows trans fat 0 g; the score is provisional. Free sugar of 6.5 g uses total sugar minus intrinsic sugar because syrups are listed (declared added sugar 4.7 g). Cholesterol is printed under 1 mg.