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Best store-bought cookie? Tate’s, says Consumer Reports

By Betty HallockDeputy Food Editor 
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In a survey of packaged chocolate-chip cookies, published this week in Consumer Reports, Tate’s Bake Shop came out on top.

Consumer Reports taste testers tried 18 store-bought and fast-food cookies, including Nabisco’s Chips Ahoy, and deemed Tate’s ‘excellent’ for its buttery flavor, homemade taste and smooth chocolate chips.

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Three fast-food cookies -- from Starbucks, McDonalds and Subway -- were rated ‘very good’; they were ‘soft, buttery and chewy.’ Dunkin’ Donuts Triple was rated a little lower because it was ‘slightly tough’ and had ‘gritty chips.’

The lowest-rated? Weight Watchers, the cookie with the least fat and fewest calories, ‘was soft and chewy but felt chalky in the mouth and had small, gritty chips and a strange, nonfood off-taste.’

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-- Betty Hallock

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Betty Hallock

Betty Hallock is deputy Food editor at the Los Angeles Times. She has co-written four cookbooks, including “Bäco: Vivid Recipes from the Heart of Los Angeles,” “Amá: A Modern Tex-Mex Kitchen” and “Baking at République.” She started her journalism career at the Wall Street Journal and Scientific American in New York, worked on the L.A. Times’ Business desk, and was interim food editor at Los Angeles Magazine. Hallock also helped launch a food and nutrition vertical for wellness app RoundGlass. She’s a graduate of UCLA and New York University.

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