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EWG Overall Score Breakdown
The product score is based on weighted scores for nutrition, ingredient and processing concerns. Generally, nutrition counts most, ingredient concerns next and degree of processing least. The weighted scores are added together to determine the final score. Read more about scores here.
EWG scored on three factors: nutrition, ingredient concerns, and the degree of processing. Read the full scoring methodology.
Considers calories, saturated fat, trans fat, sugar, sodium, protein, fiber and fruit, vegetable and nut content to differentiate between healthful and less healthful foods. For more information on nutrition concerns, read our full methodology.
Contains ingredients known to be a source of unhealthy artificial trans fats: Shortening [read more]
EWG calculates that this product is 26% sugar by weight and contains 6 teaspoons of added and natural sugar per serving [read more]
Contains a high level of saturated fat [read more]
Considers food additives, pesticides, hormones, antibiotics and contaminants like mercury and BPA, which can affect human health and the environment. For more information on ingredient concerns, read methodology.
This product is not certified organic [read more]
Ingredient(s) likely derived from antibiotic-treated animals [read more]
Ingredient(s) derived from animals that may have been treated with hormones and/or growth promoters [read more]
This product has 7 ingredients with concerns:
Estimates how much the food has been processed. Considers many factors, chief among them, modification of individual ingredients from whole foods and number of artificial ingredients. For more information on processing concerns, read our full methodology.
Product has been classified as having high processing concerns
Products with moderate and high processing concerns generally have more artificial ingredients, more ingredients that have been significantly modified from whole foods, and more ingredients overall.
This product is not certified organic [read more]
Contains food additives of lower concern
Ingredient(s) likely derived from antibiotic-treated animals [read more]
Ingredient(s) derived from animals that may have been treated with hormones and/or growth promoters [read more]
Contains ingredients known to be a source of unhealthy artificial trans fats: Shortening [read more]
EWG calculates that this product is 26% sugar by weight and contains 6 teaspoons of added and natural sugar per serving [read more]
Contains the non-specific ingredient "flavor" [read more]
Contains a high level of saturated fat [read more]
Product has been classified as having high processing concerns
Natural vs. Artificial Flavors
EWG's Good Food On A Tight Budget
EWG's 2014 Shopper's Guide to Avoiding GE Food
CREAM CHEESE [CULTURED CREAM AND MILK, SALT, XANTHAN, CAROB BEAN AND GUAR GUMS], SUGAR, MILK, CANOLA AND/OR PALM OIL, MARGARINE [PALM OIL, WATER, SOYBEAN OIL, SALT, NATURAL FLAVOR (MILK), SOY LECITHIN, BETA CAROTENE (COLOR), VITAMIN A PALMITATE], WHOLE WHEAT FLOUR, ENRICHED WHEAT FLOUR [WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMIN MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID], SOYBEAN OIL, SOUR CREAM [CULTURED MILK AND CREAM, ENZYMES], FRUIT FILLINGS [RASPBERRIES AND STRAWBERRIES (WATER, CANE SUGAR, CORN STARCH, GLUCOSE, MODIFIED FOOD STARCH, MALTODEXTRIN, CULTURED DEXTROSE, SALT, CITRIC ACID, GELLAN GUM (SODIUM CITRATE AND SUCROSE), NATURAL FLAVORS, ERYTHORBIC ACID, CARRAGEENAN, FRUIT AND VEGETABLE JUICE (COLOR))], CHOCOLATE CHIPS [SUGAR, UNSWEETENED CHOCOLATE, COCOA BUTTER, SOY LECITHIN, NATURAL VANILLA EXTRACT], GLUCOSE, BROWN SUGAR, EGGS (DRIED), COCOA (ALKALIZED), CARAMEL [MILK, SUGAR, GLUCOSE, VANILLA, BAKING SODA], WALNUTS, EVAPORATED MILK [MILK, DIPOTASSIUM PHOSPHATE, CARRAGEENAN, VITAMIN D3], NATURAL FLAVOR, NONFAT DRY MILK, SALT, XANTHAN GUM, LOCUST BEAN GUM, GUAR GUM, MODIFIED TAPIOCA STARCH, CREAM [CREAM (MILK), XANTHAN GUM, CARRAGEENAN], INVERT SUGAR, MOLASSES AND CARAMEL COLOR, BAKING SODA, WHEY PROTEIN CONCENTRATE, CINNAMON, SHORTENING [PALM OIL, SOY LECITHIN], BAKING POWDER [SODIUM ACID PYROPHOSPHATE, SODIUM BICARBONATE, CORN STARCH, MONOCALCIUM PHOSPHATE], CORN STARCH, GLUCOSE SOLIDS, AGAR, CALCIUM CARBONATE, CALCIUM SULFATE, CELLULOSE GUM, MODIFIED CORN STARCH, TURMERIC, APOCAROTENAL (COLOR)
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This product contains the following ingredient(s) that may be genetically engineered or derived from GE crops: Corn Starch, Shortening, Brown Sugar, Canola Oil, Sugars, Invert Sugar, Maltodextrin, Modified Food Starch, Xanthan Gum, Modified Starch (Corn), Glucose Solids, Sucrose, Lecithin (Soy), Citric Acid, Sodium Citrates, and Glucose [read more]
Environmental Impact: Contains eggs, which have a lower carbon footprint than meat.
Contains ingredients derived from tree nut, wheat, milk or egg - these are considered major food allergens according to the FDA [read more]
12.0 servings per container
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