What is the Difference Between “Healthy” and “Healthier?”

At The Cookie Department, we often get asked – are your cookies healthy? So, we wanted to answer this question in today’s blog post.

At the end of the day, our soft-baked cookies are just that, cookies. But what sets our cookies apart from the fold is that we use clean and functional ingredients that are known to benefit the body. For example, while we use brown sugar in our recipes, we also use date paste to help increase the sweet factor without relying solely on sugar.

Our cookies are soft and chewy and completely decadent, so they can’t realistically be considered “healthy,” but if you’re craving the satisfying taste of a delicious cookie, we can say that our cookies are certainly healthier than the competition. It all comes down to the ingredients we use and here’s why.

Comparing Our Chocolate Chip Nookie Cookie

Our Chocolate Chip Nookie Cookie is one of our most popular flavors. And why not? Everybody loves a soft, chewy chocolate chip cookie that’s loaded with chocolate chips, right? But let’s compare our recipe with a leading manufacturer of chocolate chip cookies.

Leading Brand Ingredients: Unbleached enriched flour (wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate {vitamin b1}, riboflavin {vitamin b2}, folic acid), semisweet chocolate chips (sugar, chocolate, cocoa butter, dextrose, soy lecithin), sugar, soybean oil, partially hydrogenated cotton seed oil, high fructose corn syrup, leavening ( baking soda and /or ammonium phosphate), salt, whey (from milk ), natural and artificial flavor, caramel color.

Chocolate Chip Nookie Ingredients: Wheat flour, Enriched (wheat flour, malted, niacin, reduced iron, riboflavin, folic acid), semisweet chips (sugar, chocolate liquor, cocoa butter, soy lecithin), brown sugar, high oleic sunflower oil, algae butter, butter (cream, salt), water, date paste, evaporated cane sugar, invert sugar (dextrose, fructose), moisturlok (made from fruit juice and grain), eggs, maca powder, vanilla, sea salt, baking soda, baking powder.

As you can see, there are some similar base ingredients in both cookies. But each cookie has several ingredients that the other does not.

The leading brand uses standard soybean oil, while The Cookie Department uses high oleic sunflower oil, which is a fat that is recognized as being equally as healthy as the fat in avocados. High oleic sunflower oil promotes healthy cholesterol levels and helps lower your risk of coronary heart disease.

The leading brand also uses high fructose corn syrup in its recipe, and there is a long list of potential health issues stemming from its use. The Cookie Department doesn’t use high fructose corn syrup. Instead, we sweeten our cookies with brown sugar, date paste, and evaporated cane sugar.

Our cookies also feature algae butter and maca powder, which the leading brand does not. Algae butter not only produces better baked goods, it has 50% less saturated fat compared to butter. Because algae butter is plant-based, it is also a cleaner option and the most sustainable fat source in the world. Meanwhile, maca powder delivers a host of health-improving benefits. It boosts energy and endurance, eases anxiety and depression, reduces blood pressure, fights free radicals, improves learning and memory, and more.

Choose the Cookie that Works for You

When you’re in the mood for a cookie, isn’t it better to choose a cookie that can satisfy your cravings while providing your body with clean, functional ingredients instead of ingredients that are known to be harmful to your health?

At The Cookie Department, we can’t outright say that our cookies are “healthy” for you to eat. But they are the “healthier” option when you compare them against every other cookie on the market. Try one of our delicious soft baked cookies and taste the difference clean ingredients make. Place your order today and we’re confident you’ll keep coming back for more! 

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