Costa Coffee · Pastries & Sweets

Millionaire’s Shortbread (V)

4 g protein · 396 cals · 77 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

4% of kcal

10% water

3 g/Mcal

What pulls it down

61%

57%

How scores work

Per

Calories: 396
Protein: (4%); 4 g
Fat: (55%); 24 g
Carbohydrates: (41%); 41 g
of which sugar: 23 g
Fiber: 1 g
Sodium: 140 mg

Percentages are the share of calories from each macronutrient.

Alternatives

Costa Coffee

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

Ingredients

Shortbread(44%) (Wheat Flour (WHEAT Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Folic Acid, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Salted Butter (MILK), Sugar), Caramel(36%) (Condensed MILK, Partially Inverted Sugar Syrup, Vegetable Fat (Palm Oil, Palm Kernel Oil, Rapeseed Oil, Water, Emulsifier (E 471), Natural Flavouring), Salted Butter (MILK), Palm Oil, Whey Powder (MILK), Natural Vanilla Flavouring), Chocolate(20%) (Sugar, Cocoa Butter, Whole MILK Powder, Cocoa Mass, Emulsifier: (SOYA Lecithin), Natural Vanilla Flavouring).

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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