Costa Coffee · Pastries & Sweets

Iced Ghost Gingerbread Biscuit

2 g protein · 188 cals · 45 g

Why this score

engineered against fullness

Concentrated sugar, with little protein or fiber to slow it down; dense calories with little protein, volume or fiber to fill you up.

Three routes to fullness — one is enough

5% of kcal

10% water

4 g/Mcal

What pulls it down

52%

42%

How scores work

Per

Calories: 188
Protein: (5%); 2 g
Fat: (25%); 5 g
Carbohydrates: (70%); 33 g
of which sugar: 16 g
Fiber: 1 g
Sodium: 72 mg

Percentages are the share of calories from each macronutrient.

Alternatives

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

Ingredients

Fortified Wheat Flour (WHEAT Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Sugar, Partially Inverted Sugar Syrup, Palm Oil, Glucose Syrup, Invert Sugar Syrup, Rapeseed Oil, Pasteurised Free Range EGG, Palm Stearin, Ginger Powder, Raising Agent (Sodium Hydrogen Carbonate), Dried Free Range EGG white, Cornflour, Stabiliser (Disodium Diphosphate), Concentrated Lemon Juice, Acidity Regulator (Acetic Acid), Colour (Vegetable Carbon).

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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