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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 that may contribute small amounts of unhealthy artificial trans fats: Distilled Monoglycerides, Palm Oil, and Mono And Diglycerides Of Fatty Acids [read more]
EWG calculates that this product is 31% sugar by weight and contains 3 teaspoons of added and natural sugar per serving [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]
Contains 2 of EWG's top food additives of concern: RED 40 and YELLOW 5
Contains synthetic food dyes [read more]
Includes ingredient(s) derived from animals that were possibly treated with antibiotics and/or growth promoters: Milk (Fat Free), Cheese (Cream Cheese), Milk, Egg, Cream, Butter, and Cheese Culture [read more]
This product has 12 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 moderate concern
Contains 2 of EWG's top food additives of concern: RED 40 and YELLOW 5
Contains ingredients that may contribute small amounts of unhealthy artificial trans fats: Distilled Monoglycerides, Palm Oil, and Mono And Diglycerides Of Fatty Acids [read more]
EWG calculates that this product is 31% sugar by weight and contains 3 teaspoons of added and natural sugar per serving [read more]
Contains synthetic food dyes [read more]
Contains the non-specific ingredient "flavor" [read more]
Product has been classified as having high processing concerns
Includes ingredient(s) derived from animals that were possibly treated with antibiotics and/or growth promoters: Milk (Fat Free), Cheese (Cream Cheese), Milk, Egg, Cream, Butter, and Cheese Culture [read more]
Natural vs. Artificial Flavors
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EWG's 2014 Shopper's Guide to Avoiding GE Food
PANCAKE MIX (ENRICHED BLEACHED WHEAT FLOUR [WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID, MALTED BARLEY FLOUR], CINNAMON NUGGET [DEXTROSE, SUGAR, PALM OIL, CORN FLOUR, CINNAMON, CORN STARCH], SUGAR, LEAVENING [BAKING SODA, SODIUM ALUMINUM PHOSPHATE, MONOCALCIUM PHOSPHATE], CONTAINS LESS THAN 2% OF: DEXTROSE, PALM OIL, BUTTERMILK POWDER, SALT, DISTILLED MONOGLYCERIDES, EGGS, SODIUM STEAROYL LACTYLATE, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR), ICING (SUGAR, PALM OIL, WATER, CORN SYRUP, CREAM CHEESE POWDER [CREAM CHEESE {CREAM, MILK, SKIM MILK, WHEY, CHEESE CULTURES, SALT, ENZYMES}, WHEY, NATURAL FLAVOR, TOCOPHEROLS AND ASCORBYL PALMITATE {TO PROTECT FLAVOR}], CONTAINS LESS THAN 2% OF: CORN STARCH, MONO- AND DIGLYCERIDES, MODIFIED CORN STARCH, SALT, ANTIOXIDANTS [ASCORBYL PALMITATE, MIXED TOCOPHEROLS, CHAMOMILE EXTRACT, ROSEMARY EXTRACT], POTASSIUM SORBATE [PRESERVATIVE] XANTHAN GUM, LACTIC ACID, POLYSORBATE 60, CITRIC ACID, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, YELLOW 5 LAKE, TAPIOCA DEXTRIN, RUM, SODIUM BENZOATE [PRESERVATIVE], CARAMEL COLOR, RED 40), CINNAMON AND BROWN SUGAR SWIRL (BROWN SUGAR, WATER, DEXTROSE, BUTTER [CREAM, SALT], MODIFIED CORN STARCH, CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF: CARAMEL COLOR, SALT, CINNAMON, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, GELLAN GUM [SODIUM CITRATE, SUGAR, GELLAN GUM], XANTHAN GUM, CITRIC ACID)
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This product contains the following ingredient(s) that may be genetically engineered or derived from GE crops: Corn Flour, Corn Starch, Brown Sugar, Corn Syrup, Sugars, Dextrose, Xanthan Gum, Modified Starch (Corn), Mono And Diglycerides Of Fatty Acids, Lactic Acid, Citric Acid, and Sodium Citrates [read more]
Environmental Impact: Contains eggs, which have a lower carbon footprint than meat.
Contains ingredients derived from wheat, milk or egg - these are considered major food allergens according to the FDA [read more]
10.0 servings per container
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