Cakes and biscuits

Yenzo has checked 15 products in this group, from Dorkbua, Oreo, Rồng Vàng Hoàng Gia and 9 other brands; on a Vietnamese pack the group is called “bánh ngọt, bánh quy”. The ingredient list and the nutrition table of each product come from its own label — 5 from label photos checked by Yenzo and 10 from the open database Open Food Facts — and every product is rated with the same open formula the Yenzo app uses. Product names are given as printed on the pack, in Vietnamese, with a short English description in brackets.

On the Yenzo scale, 6 are rated “Sometimes” and 9 “Moderate”. Across these 15 products, the thing that most often pulls the rating down is ultra-processing (14 of 15 products), followed by energy density (13) and sugar (12). The ratings compare cakes and biscuits with each other by the same rules — which rank higher within the group — not whether to eat them. Each product's page lists the reasons behind its level, figure by figure, with the threshold each figure is measured against.