The marketing is better than the food.

This is not a chip. It is a chemical delivery system shaped like a chip. NOVA Group 4. Artificial colours. MSG. Nothing redeemable in the ingredient list.

Better alternative: Tostitos Restaurant Style — score 62

The orange dust is not cheese. It has never been cheese. Zero nutritional value. Every ingredient is synthetic.

Better alternative: Boom Chicka Pop White Cheddar — score 52

The filling is not cream. It has never been cream. High sugar palm oil artificial vanilla NOVA Group 4.

Better alternative: Lindt 85% Dark Chocolate — score 65

Dessert marketed as breakfast since 1964. High fructose corn syrup artificial colours NOVA Group 4.

Better alternative: Larabar Apple Pie — score 76

Built for convenience not nutrition. The cheese is not really cheese. The meat is not really meat. The cracker is not really a cracker.

Better alternative: Chomps Turkey Sticks — score 87

Palm oil is the first ingredient after sugar. The jar says hazelnut spread. The label says palm oil and sugar with some hazelnuts in the background.

Better alternative: SunButter Sunflower Butter

Marketed as a healthy granola since the 1970s. Palm oil second ingredient. 18g sugar per serving. The oats are in there somewhere but they are not doing the heavy lifting.

Better alternative: Kind Dark Chocolate Nuts and Sea Salt — score 71

Twenty one grams of sugar. Appropriate if you are cycling 80km. Not appropriate if you are driving to work. Athletes food marketed to desk workers.

Better alternative: RXBAR Chocolate Sea Salt — score 82

32g of sugar per bottle marketed as healthy hydration with added vitamins. The vitamins do not cancel out the sugar.

Better alternative: Bubly Sparkling Water — score 82

16g sugar per serving. Artificial strawberry flavour. The probiotic marketing does not change what the ingredient list says.

Better alternative: Liberté Greek Yogurt Plain — score 91

Sounds like a health food. The ingredient list has 30 items including multiple artificial sweeteners and colours. The protein is real. Everything around it is not.

Better alternative: RXBAR Chocolate Sea Salt — score 82

Every ingredient in here has a number after its name. High sodium artificial colours NOVA Group 4.

Better alternative: SkinnyPop Original — score 78

Not cheese. Not really a stick. Artificial colours artificial flavours high sodium NOVA Group 4.

Better alternative: Wonderful Pistachios — score 85

Artificial colours artificial flavours NOVA Group 4.

Better alternative: Tostitos Restaurant Style — score 62

39 grams of sugar per can. Caramel colour. Phosphoric acid. A beverage designed to be consumed faster than your body can process the sugar load.

Better alternative: Bubly Sparkling Water — score 82

One gram more sugar than Coca Cola. The cola war nobody needed to win.

Better alternative: Bubly Sparkling Water — score 82

Fine during a workout. At any other time it is sugar water with food dye and an athletic brand on the label. Context matters.

Better alternative: Bubly Sparkling Water — score 82