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Four Cheese Toastie

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Four Cheese Toastie

24 g protein · 473 cals · 175 g

Why this score

engineered against fullness

Fat and refined carbohydrate converging the way engineered food does; dense calories with little protein, volume or fiber to fill you up.

Three routes to fullness — one is enough

21% of kcal
47% water
5 g/Mcal

What pulls it down

41%

How scores work

Per

Calories
473
Protein
(21%)
24 g
Fat
(40%)
21 g
Carbohydrates
(39%)
46 g
of which sugar
3 g
Fiber
2 g
Sodium
760 mg

Percentages are the share of calories from each macronutrient.

Alternatives

Costa Coffee

Higher-scoring, from Costa Coffee’s own “Lunch” in United Kingdom.

Ingredients

White Bread (Wheat Flour (WHEAT Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Folic Acid, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Water, Salt, Yeast, Rapeseed Oil, Emulsifiers (E471 and E472e), Spirit Vinegar, Palm Fat, Flour Treatment Agent (Ascorbic Acid)), Cheese Sauce (MILK, Mature Cheddar Cheese (MILK), Water, Single Cream (MILK), Wheat Flour (WHEAT Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Folic Acid, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Rapeseed Oil, Cornflour, English Mustard (Water, MUSTARD Flour, Salt, Sugar, WHEAT Starch, Turmeric), Salt, White Pepper), Mozzarella Cheese (MILK) (12%), Mature Cheddar Cheese (MILK) (9%), Béchamel Sauce (MILK, Water, Single Cream (MILK), Salted Butter (Butter (MILK), Salt), Wheat Flour (WHEAT Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Folic Acid, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Cornflour, Salt, White Pepper, Ground Bay Leaf), Red Leicester Cheese (MILK) (5%) (with Colour (Annatto Norbixin)), Emmental Cheese (MILK) (3.0%), American Style Mustard (Water, Spirit Vinegar, MUSTARD Flour, MUSTARD Bran, Cornflour, Salt, Ground Turmeric), Potato Starch.

Nutrition as published by Costa Coffee — check it yourself. Product photograph © Costa Coffee, shown to identify the item. The score measures satiety per calorie. It is not a virtue scale, and no food here is forbidden. How the score works.

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