Easy Dessert Recipes — Homemade vs Shop-Bought
Desserts show the biggest gap between homemade and shop-bought. A no-bake cheesecake from scratch has 7 ingredients. The Tesco version has 17 — including 6 UPF markers and 4 different types of sugar. These analyses show exactly what you gain by making it yourself.
No-Bake Cheesecake
7 ingredients homemade vs 17 shop-bought
A surprisingly clean dessert when made from scratch. The only ultra-processed ingredient is the digestive biscuit base. You control the sugar quantity (icing sugar) and every other ingredient is minimally processed cream, butter, and cream cheese. The shop-bought version tells a very different story.
Apple Cake
10 ingredients homemade vs 18 shop-bought
A straightforward bake using 10 ingredients — all NOVA 1 (apples, eggs, milk, lemon) or NOVA 2 (flour, sugar, oil, baking powder). You control the sugar quantity exactly. Zero UPF markers. The shop-bought alternative paints a very different picture.
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