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Klondike Mint Chocolate Chip Bar
Frozen Foods
📊 NOVA 4🌾 Gluten-Free

Klondike Mint Chocolate Chip Bar

Klondike
24 foz
Available at Foodtown
240
Calories
3g
Protein
21g
Sugars
50mg
Sodium
2g
Fiber
45
Ingredients

What You Should Know

Klondike Mint Chocolate Chip Bar is a frozen novelty you’ll find in the supermarket freezer aisle, tucked with other ice cream bars, novelties, and novelty popsicles — often alongside Klondike’s other flavors, drumsticks, and pint-sized ice creams. It reads as a grab-and-go treat for quick indulgence: a green mint-flavored creamy center studded with chocolate chips and enrobed in a crisp dark-chocolatey shell that gives a satisfying “crack” when bitten. Packaged individually in silver foil within a larger box, it’s marketed as a portable, spoon-free dessert for kids’ lunches, after-dinner snacks, or spontaneous road-trip stops. The brand leans into nostalgic, all-American positioning — affordable, familiar, and playful — appealing to families and adults who remember Klondike from childhood. Labeling nudges include a kosher dairy certification and a claim that milk comes from cows not treated with artificial growth hormones, which can create a mild “natural” or trust halo despite the indulgent profile; there are also obvious kid-friendly cues in the bright green mint color and the chocolate coating. Sensory notes: cool, creamy texture inside with occasional crunchy chocolate chips and a brittle shell; mint is bright but sweet rather than herbal; the coating produces a crisp bite. At roughly 240 calories and about 21 g of sugar per bar, it functions as an occasional dessert or celebratory reward. Processing context: it’s an industrially formulated frozen dessert containing sweeteners, emulsifiers, gums, colors, and flavorings, typical of supermarket novelty bars. Rituals include unwrapping foil, sharing at movie nights, and tossing a few in the cooler for summer outings.

Nutrition Facts

Serving Size: 1.0
Servings per Container: 6
Calories240
% Daily Value*
Total Fat14g18%
Saturated Fat11g55%
Cholesterol10mg3%
Sodium50mg2%
Total Carbohydrate28g10%
Dietary Fiber2g7%
Total Sugars21g
Protein3g
* 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

Nonfat, Milk,, Coconut, Oil,, Sugar,, Corn, Syrup,, Fructose,, Cocoa, (Processed, with, Alkali),, Less, than, 2%, of:, Chocolate, Liquor,, Whey,, Soy, Lecithin,, Milk, Fat,, Cocoa, Butter,, Natural, and, Artificial, Flavors,, Soybean, Oil,, Mono, and, Diglycerides,, Tara, Gum,, Guar, Gum,, Locust, Bean, Gum,, Yellow, 5,, Blue, 1..

Flagged Ingredients:

  • Soybean Oil - Seed oil high in omega-6 fatty acids
  • Soy Lecithin - Processed emulsifier
  • Mono and Diglycerides - Processed emulsifier
  • Yellow 5 - Artificial coloring
  • Blue 1 - Artificial coloring
No Seed OilNo EmulsifierNo Additive

Dietary Labels

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

Ultra-Processing Assessment

NOVA Score:4 / 4

Ultra-Processed

Why this score?

This product is ultra-processed (NOVA 4) because it is an industrially formulated frozen dessert with multiple added sweeteners, emulsifiers, gums, colorants, and artificial/natural flavors rather than primarily whole foods.

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Common Questions about Klondike Mint Chocolate Chip Bar

Well, that depends on your definition of healthy! If you’re looking for a fun treat to enjoy occasionally, it fits the bill. But with 240 calories and 21 grams of sugar per bar, it’s not exactly a health food. It’s more of a dessert than a nutritional powerhouse.

Perfect For

movie-night
game-day-prep
road-trip

Vibe:

indulgentnostalgicconvenientcomforting
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