Sugar Cookie

How it compares with other cookies and biscuits

Per 100 g, it has more sugar than 86% of the 13,787 cookies and biscuits products in USDA's branded database, and it has more sodium than 34% of them.

Where the calories come from: 64% carbohydrate, 32% fat and 5% protein (4 calories a gram of protein or carbohydrate, 9 of fat).

Other cookie in this aisle

9,033 of the 13,787 cookies and biscuits products are named cookie. Per 100 g their median is 464 calories, 300 mg of sodium and 4.2 g of protein; 2,773 have less sodium than this one.

What is in it

Ingredients (as submitted): COOKIE: {ENRICHED BLEACHED FLOUR (BLEACHED WHEAT FLOUR, MALTED BARLEY FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMIN MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID), POWDERED SUGAR (SUCROSE, CORNSTARCH), BUTTER [CREAM (MILK), SALT], EGGS, NATURAL FLAVORS, SALT}, WHITE ICING: {SUGAR, CORN SYRUP, WATER, PALM OIL, ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, PALM KERNEL OIL, PRESERVATIVES (POTASSIUM SORBATE, SORBIC ACID), TITANIUM DIOXIDE (COLOR)}, RED FOOD COLORING: {WATER, HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP, GLYCERINE, FD&C RED 40 (E129), SUGAR, MODIFIED FOOD STARCH, FD&C RED 3 (E127), FD&C YELLOW 5 (E102), SODIUM BENZOATE AND POTASSIUM SORBATE (PRESERVATIVES), CARRAGEENAN GUM, XANTHAN GUM, CITRIC ACID}

The statement lists 3 ingredients at the top level, beginning with Cookie: {enriched Bleached Flour (bleached Wheat Flour, Malted Barley Flour, Niacin. It has no separate "Contains" line; a major allergen (the nine the FDA requires on labels: milk, eggs, fish, shellfish, tree nuts, peanuts, wheat, soybeans, sesame) may be named inside the ingredients instead. For allergies, read the package: this is the record USDA holds (updated Sep 6, 2022), not the label on the shelf today.

Source: the ingredient statement United Dairy Farmers Inc submitted to USDA (FoodData Central 2368365).

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