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Chips Ahoy! Original Chocolate Chip Cookies, Family Size
Snacks, Chips & Dips
📊 NOVA 4

Chips Ahoy! Original Chocolate Chip Cookies, Family Size

Chips Ahoy!
18.20 oz
Available at Foodtown
160
Calories
1g
Protein
11g
Sugars
105mg
Sodium
1g
Fiber
54
Ingredients

What You Should Know

Chips Ahoy! Original Chocolate Chip Cookies, Family Size, is a familiar sight in the cookie aisle of mainstream American supermarkets, shelved with other Nabisco and national-brand cookies near crackers and sweet snack bars. Packaged in a resealable plastic family bag, it leans into convenience and sharing—an easy grab for weeknight snack drawers or pantry-stocking. This product fits casual occasions like packing school lunches, movie nights on the couch, or bringing a quick dessert to gatherings; it also surfaces in last-minute road-trip stops and lunchbox rotations. Brand positioning is mass-market and family-oriented: nostalgic advertising targets parents who grew up with the brand while playful imagery and the promise of lots of real chocolate chips appeal to kids and impulse buyers. Label characteristics include back-of-package ingredient lists with “unbleached enriched flour” and a “real chocolate chips” claim on front; small print lists natural and artificial flavors and caramel color. There is no organic certification and the product trades health-focused messaging for taste and convenience, sometimes creating a health-halo effect through words like unbleached or real. In plain processing context, these cookies are made through multiple industrial steps and include additives and refined ingredients typical of highly processed snacks. Sensory details: light golden-brown rounds with a crisp, crunchy bite and pockets of semisweet chocolate that deliver sweet, familiar chocolate-and-butter notes; the family-size resealable pouch supports repeated snacking rituals—dunking in milk, crumbling over ice cream, or stashing in a lunchbox.

Nutrition Facts

Serving Size: 3
Servings per Container: 16
Calories160
% Daily Value*
Total Fat8g10%
Saturated Fat3g15%
Sodium105mg5%
Total Carbohydrate22g8%
Dietary Fiber1g4%
Total Sugars11g
Added Sugars11g22%
Protein1g
* The % Daily Value (DV) tells you how much a nutrient in a serving of food contributes to a daily diet. 2,000 calories a day is used for general nutrition advice.

Ingredients

Unbleached, Enriched, Flour, (Wheat, Flour,, Niacin,, Reduced, Iron,, Thiamine, Mononitrate, [Vitamin, B1],, Riboflavin, [Vitamin, B2],, Folic, Acid),, Semisweet, Chocolate, Chips, (Sugar,, Chocolate,, Dextrose,, Cocoa, Butter,, Soy, Lecithin,, Natural, Flavor,, Nonfat, Milk),, Sugar,, Soybean, and/or, Canola, Oil,, Palm, Oil,, High, Fructose, Corn, Syrup,, Leavening, (Baking, Soda,, Ammonium, Phosphate),, Salt,, Natural, and, Artificial, Flavor,, Caramel, Color..

Flagged Ingredients:

  • Soybean Oil - Seed oil high in omega-6 fatty acids
  • Canola Oil - Seed oil high in omega-6 fatty acids
  • Soy Lecithin - Processed emulsifier
  • Caramel Color - Artificial coloring
No Seed OilNo EmulsifierNo Additive

Dietary Labels

This product is not vegan, is not gluten-free, and is not organic.

Ultra-Processing Assessment

NOVA Score:4 / 4

Ultra-Processed

Why this score?

Contains refined flours, high-fructose corn syrup, emulsifiers, artificial flavors and color—formulation and multiple industrial ingredients are characteristic of ultraprocessed foods (NOVA 4).

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Common Questions about Chips Ahoy! Original Chocolate Chip Cookies, Family Size

Health is a bit of a moving target, right? Chips Ahoy! cookies are definitely a treat rather than a health food. They have added sugars and oils, so if you're looking for something nutrient-dense, you might want to save these for an occasional snack rather than a daily staple.

Perfect For

back-to-school
movie-night
road-trip

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