Nestle Munch Max Choco Coated Crunchy Wafer Chocolate

Nestle Munch Max is a chocolate-coated crunchy wafer: sugar, refined wheat flour (maida), hydrogenated vegetable fats, fractionated vegetable fat, milk solids and cocoa solids (3.5%), with soya lecithin, a raising agent, salt and flavouring. The pack is 115.5 g (3 bars of 38.5 g) and the panel is printed per 100 g.

CleanPlate scores it [R]ED5. The E for nutrition is low: almost no credited protein, fibre or micronutrients per 100 g; its 5.5 g of protein earns no credit because it is under 2.75 g per 100 kcal. The D for ingredients reflects mostly refined or industrial ingredients (led by sugar, refined wheat flour and hydrogenated vegetable fats), with additives that cost points: flavouring and calcium sulphate. A red flag (hydrogenated fat / vanaspati (unqualified)) cuts the score by 40%. The 5 for risk comes mainly from saturated fat (23.8 g per 100 g) and free sugar (34.6 g per 100 g).

Sugar, refined wheat flour (maida), hydrogenated vegetable fats, fractionated vegetable fat, milk solids, cocoa solids (3.5%), emulsifier (soya lecithin), raising agent (500(ii)), yeast, iodised salt, flour treatment agent (516) and artificial (vanilla) and nature-identical flavouring.

Per 100 g: 428 kcal, 24 g fat of which 23.8 g saturated, 38.2 g sugar of which 34.6 g added, 5.5 g protein, 88.7 mg sodium. Trans fat is declared 0.04 g, but the unqualified hydrogenated fat means it is not accepted: the fat is scored as hydrogenated and the score is provisional until the maker confirms. Protein, carbohydrate and fat add to only 83 g per 100 g, and no fibre, moisture or ash is declared.