Palm Oil Free Cookies Cakes

We ran 1,522 cookies cakes through our palm oil free rules: 24 pass, 12 need a label check, and 797 don't make it.

This is the aisle where palm oil lives. Biscuits, wafers, cake bars and sandwich cookies need a fat that is solid at room temperature and cheap, and palm oil is that fat. Butter biscuits and shortbread pass; most filled or chocolate-coated biscuits do not unless the pack says "no palm oil" on the front.

You can eat these

Where the traps are

What actually disqualifies cookies cakes from a palm oil free diet, counted across 60 of the 797 products that fail:

palm oil
28 products
palm oil, flagged by the open food facts ingredient analysis
20 products
palm fat
4 products
palm kernel
4 products
palmolein
2 products

Check the label first

For these, the data is incomplete or an ingredient can go either way. We say so instead of guessing. Tap one to see exactly what's unclear.

Verdicts are automated checks based on Open Food Facts data. Formulations change, so always confirm on the physical label.