Sunfeast Dark Fantasy Choco Fills Ingredients: What Is in the Biscuit?

Quick answer: Sunfeast Dark Fantasy Choco Fills, as shown in Fig's listing, is a wheat-flour biscuit with a 38 percent palm-oil-based chocolate creme, plus hydrogenated vegetable oils, butter and milk solids, soya lecithin, mono- and di-glycerides from palm oil, and up to six food colours. It contains wheat, milk and soy and may contain nut and sulphite.

Dark Fantasy is a filled biscuit from India that retailers such as Morrisons also list in the UK. This page reproduces the listed ingredients, explains the ones people ask about, and shows how the list reads against common diets. It is general information, not medical advice.

Ingredient List (as Listed on the Pack)

• Choco creme (38%): sugar, refined palmolein, refined palm oil, cocoa solids, emulsifier [lecithin (from soyabean)], nature identical flavouring substances (chocolate), artificial flavouring substances (vanilla)
• Refined wheat flour (maida), hydrogenated vegetable oils, sugar, invert syrup, liquid glucose
• Raising agents [INS 503(ii), INS 500(ii), INS 450(i)]
• Cocoa solids, butter, milk solids, iodized salt, nature identical flavouring substances (chocolate)
• Colours* (INS 150c, INS 150d, INS 133, INS 127, INS 110, INS 102)
• Emulsifiers [lecithin (from soyabean), mono- and di-glycerides of fatty acids (from palm oil)], artificial flavouring substances (milk, vanilla)
• *This pack may contain one or more than one of these colours.

Allergens

The listing states: contains wheat, milk, soy; may contain nut, sulphite. Wheat comes from the refined wheat flour, milk from the butter and milk solids, and soy from the lecithin.

What Stands Out

• Fats: refined palmolein and refined palm oil in the creme, plus hydrogenated vegetable oils in the biscuit. Palm oil is a fruit oil, not a seed oil; see our guide to non-seed oils. The hydrogenated oils are not otherwise described.
• Sugars: sugar, invert syrup and liquid glucose all appear, and sugar leads the creme.
• Colours: INS 150c and 150d are caramel colours, INS 133 is brilliant blue, INS 127 is erythrosine, INS 110 is sunset yellow and INS 102 is tartrazine. INS 110 and INS 102 are two of the six colours in the University of Southampton study that suggested a possible link with hyperactivity in some children; under EU regulation 1333/2008 foods with those colours must carry a warning. It is an association, not an established cause, and the rule applies in the EU. The pack says it may contain one or more of the colours.
• Emulsifiers: soya lecithin and mono- and di-glycerides of fatty acids, which the list says are from palm oil. See our guide to emulsifiers.
• Raising agents: INS 503(ii) is ammonium bicarbonate, INS 500(ii) is sodium bicarbonate and INS 450(i) is disodium diphosphate.
• Flavourings: nature identical and artificial flavouring substances (chocolate, vanilla and milk), whose sources are not stated.

How the List Reads Against Common Diets

Check the Pack in Your Hand

Ingredient lists differ by country, pack size and production date, and manufacturers change recipes. This list comes from one pack of Sunfeast Dark Fantasy Choco Fills as shown in a product listing on Fig, a food-scanner app, which reproduces the label from a pack photo. We did not see a manufacturer page, so treat it as a guide and read the label on your own pack. If you have a serious allergy, check the pack and contact the manufacturer.

Checking Packaged Foods With Foodsage

Foodsage is an ingredient checker. You choose your conditions, sensitivities and avoid categories (gluten, dairy, soy, artificial colors, additives and refined starches), scan a barcode or an ingredient list, and it returns a verdict that names the ingredients that matched your profile. It reads the ingredient list, so it cannot see cross-contact or tell you whether a pack in another country has a different recipe. It does not diagnose or treat any condition, and nothing here is medical advice.