Hocco Cookies & Cream Ice Cream Cone

Hocco Cookies & Cream is a 135 ml cone: ice cream (48%) with cookies (8%) and chocolate cake powder (3%), a topping and spraying layer (41%) of choco coating (18%), choco spraying (7%) and chocolate cake powder (16%), and a wafer biscuit cone (11%). The cookies are made with partially hydrogenated vegetable fat, and the full list also has a preservative (INS 202) and an antioxidant (INS 320). The pack prints the panel per 135 ml serve, converted here to per 100 ml.

CleanPlate scores it [R]ED4. The E for nutrition is low: almost no credited protein, fibre or micronutrients per 100 ml. The D for ingredients reflects mostly refined or industrial ingredients (led by milk solids, sugar and cookies), with additives that cost points: polysorbate 80, carboxymethyl cellulose, caramel colour and diphosphates. A red flag (hydrogenated fat / vanaspati (unqualified)) cuts the score by 40%. The 4 for risk comes mainly from saturated fat (11.5 g per 100 ml) and free sugar (23.5 g per 100 ml).

Ice cream (48%): water, milk solids, sugar, cookies (8%: refined flour, sugar, choc chip milk with hydrogenated vegetable fat, partially hydrogenated vegetable fat, butter, cocoa, invert syrup, a preservative and an antioxidant), chocolate cake powder (3%), emulsifiers and five stabilisers. Topping and spraying (41%): choco coating, choco spraying and chocolate cake powder (16%). Wafer biscuit cone (11%): wheat flour, sugar, starch, palm oil, salt and an emulsifier.

Per 100 ml: 294 kcal, 16.9 g fat of which 11.5 g saturated, 24.5 g sugar of which 17.6 g added, 3.33 g protein, 37.7 mg sodium. The panel prints 0.02 g of trans fat per 100 ml, but the cookies list partially hydrogenated vegetable fat and the choc chips an unqualified hydrogenated vegetable fat, so the declared value is not accepted for the ingredients score and the result is provisional until the maker confirms. The structured list dropped the cookie and cake-powder sub-lists, so the full pack text is used for scoring.