Costa Coffee · Pastries & Sweets

Pain Au Chocolat

6 g protein · 299 cals · 72 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

8% of kcal

26% water

7 g/Mcal

What pulls it down

28%

50%

How scores work

Per

Calories: 299
Protein: (8%); 6 g
Fat: (52%); 17 g
Carbohydrates: (41%); 30 g
of which sugar: 8 g
Fiber: 2 g
Sodium: 196 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

WHEAT Flour, Butter (MILK) (21%), Water, Chocolate (11%) (Sugar, Cocoa Mass, Cocoa Butter, Emulsifier (E322 (SOYA)), Sugar, Yeast, WHEAT Gluten, EGG, Salt, Flour Treatment Agent (Ascorbic Acid), Enzymes.

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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