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Britannia · Common retail packs: ~60 g multipack of slices; 120 g loaf-style pack (e.g., "120 g" on BigBasket listing). · Biscuits

Britannia Vanilla Choco Marble Slice Cake

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High-sugar, ultra-processed Britannia marble cake made with refined flour, added sugars and refined vegetable oil, with no major reported safety scandals but poor everyday health profile.

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Fig. 01 · Common retail packs: ~60 g multipack of slices; 120 g loaf-style pack (e.g., "120 g" on BigBasket listing). · label on file

§01 — Six-Axis Assessment

Red = warning
01/06Sugar loadRed

The pack label lists 27. 2 g sugar per 100g, which meets the red threshold (≥10g/100g).

02/06Processing tierRed

Ingredient list contains NOVA 4 markers: emulsifier (4xx series), stabiliser (4xx series), invert sugar syrup — NOVA Group 4 (ultra-processed) combined with a red flag on another axis meets the v1 red threshold.

03/06Fat profileRed

The pack label says saturated fat is 8. 9 g per 100g and trans fat is 0 g per 100g, crossing the red fat threshold.

04/06SodiumClear

The pack label lists 184 mg sodium per 100g, which is below the sodium watch threshold (<300mg/100g).

05/06Marketing deceptionClear

No deceptive front-of-pack health or marketing claims were found in the sources checked for this assessment (brand site and Indian e-commerce listings). Per v1, absence of adverse findings is read as a clean record.

06/06Regulatory historyClear

No recalls, bans, or adverse regulatory actions are evidenced in the provided research material for this product, indicating a clean public record based on the included sources.

§05 — Timeline

01 Jan 2018
Britannia positions Vanilla Choco Marble Cake as a soft, egg-based sliced cake on its website
Britannia Industries (corporate site) · ref 1

§04 — Evidence Trail

01Britannia search results for marble cake — Britannia Industries
Assessed under donteat.in methodology v1 · six-axis framework.

§06 — Ingredients

REFINED WHEAT FLOUR MAIDA, SUGAR, EGGS, REFINED VEGETABLE FAT [INTERESTERIFIED VEGETABLE FAT, SESAME OIL, EMULSIFIER (471), ANTIOXIDANT (319) & VITAMIN A], HUMECTANTS [422, 420(II)], REFINER PALMOLEIN OIL, HIGH MALTOSE SYRUP, LIQUID GLUCOSE, EDIBLE MAIZE STARCH, CAKE GEL (EMULSIFIERS AND STABILIZERS (471 & 477) AND HUMECTANT [420(II)]), RAISING AGENTS [341(I), 500(II), 450(I)], CAKE MIX [COLOUR (162), EMULSIFIER (471)], IODISED SALT, INVERT SUGAR SYRUP, NATURE IDENTICAL & ARTIFICIAL (VANILLA, CHEESE) FLAVOURING SUBSTANCES, COCOA SOLIDS (0.3%), PRESERVATIVES (202, 200, 282), BAKING POWDER, ACIDITY REGULATOR (330). STABILIZER (415), COLOURS(129, 122, 124)