Here are the worst supermarket king cakes, the “baddest” cakes for health according to Yuka (rated 0/100)

This weekend, many of us will celebrate Epiphany 2025 by eating a king cake. Be careful, however, if the king cakes sold in supermarkets are tempting with their attractive low prices, the quality of the recipes used to cook them sometimes leaves something to be desired depending on theapplication Yukawho is an expert in analyzing lists of ingredients that we don’t always take the time to read in stores before buying.

In addition to almonds, we sometimes find controversial health additives and excessive salt and sugar additions in our frangipane pancakes, when the industrial recipe for the pancake is not simply too rich in saturated fat. (while this puff cake is already fatty by nature). With frangipane, chocolate or frangipane and chocolate chips, apples… The Yuka application has sorted through the bakery sections of supermarkets to highlight galettes des rois which don’t even get 1 single good point. Rated 0/100 on the app, here are the worst king cakes, the worst for your health to avoid in supermarkets. To replace them, choose the best supermarket king cakes for health according to Yuka.

Galette des rois 2025: here are the worst supermarket frangipane pancakes for health, according to Yuka

Traditionally, the galette des rois is a cake made of puff pastry and an almond-based filling: frangipane. If you are looking for a classic frangipane galette, the Yuka app advises you not to buy the following industrial galettes des rois:

• the Galette des rois frangipane 6 people from Carrefour Classic’ which is striking with the presence of 5 additives to avoid in its frangipane recipe, its 13 grams of saturated fat per 100 grams and its portions which prove to be too high in calories for a simple pancake.
• the Galette des rois with frangipane and butter from Leader Price which contains 4 additives to avoid, too much saturated fat and a little too much salt, in addition to being too high in calories.
• THE 2 individual king cakes with frangipane from Picard which are pinned by the application because they contain 2 additives that Yuka judges to avoid, while being too rich in saturated fats and a little too high in calories.

• the Galette des rois Le Guillou with its 6 additives to avoid, its 18 grams of saturated fat per 100 grams and its recipe that is a little too high in calories.
• the Galette des rois frangipane Les Pâtissades which combines no less than 7 controversial health additives, in addition to containing 17 grams of saturated fat per 100 grams, which makes it too high in calories for a commercial festive cake.
• the Ker’kelau king cake which is pinned as being the fattest galette des rois with frangipane (18.1 grams of saturated fat per 100 grams), and which also obtains the prize of the galette des rois with frangipane with the most controversial additives for health (which are 9 in this recipe). Too high in calories, its recipe is also too salty.

Worst king cake: here are the “baddest” supermarket king cakes for health revisited, according to Yuka

It’s not just the classic galettes des rois with frangipane filling that are sometimes bad for your health when you buy them in the supermarket. Those that are revisited with chocolate, apples, etc. sometimes also have an industrial recipe that is not very favorable to our health, according to the application. According to Yuka, it is better to avoid buying for Epiphany 2025:

• the Galette des rois with Chabrior apples which contains 3 additives to avoid for health reasons as well as too much saturated fat, in addition to being considered a little too salty and a little too caloric for this type of cake.

• the Galettes des rois frangipane chocolate chips from Carrefour Classic’ which has no less than 6 controversial health additives, in addition to being a chocolate king cake that is too fatty and a little too high in calories of its kind.
• the Maître Jean Pierre’s chocolate frangipane king galette which has 7 additives to avoid in its recipe, in addition to being very fatty (17 grams of saturated fat per 100 grams).

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