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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: Vegetable Shortening [read more]
EWG calculates that this product is 36% sugar by weight and contains 9 teaspoons of added and natural sugar per serving [read more]
Contains 21% of the Institute of Medicine's daily sodium (salt) recommendations based on adequate intake [read more]
* Calculated based on a serving, not per 100 grams.
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 1 of EWG's top food additives of concern: RED 40
Ingredient(s) likely derived from antibiotic-treated animals [read more]
Contains synthetic food dyes [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 moderate concern
Contains 1 of EWG's top food additives of concern: RED 40
Ingredient(s) likely derived from antibiotic-treated animals [read more]
Contains ingredients known to be a source of unhealthy artificial trans fats: Vegetable Shortening [read more]
EWG calculates that this product is 36% sugar by weight and contains 9 teaspoons of added and natural sugar per serving [read more]
Contains synthetic food dyes [read more]
Contains the non-specific ingredient "flavor" [read more]
Contains 21% of the Institute of Medicine's daily sodium (salt) recommendations based on adequate intake [read more]
Product has been classified as having high processing concerns
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CHOCOLATE ICING (SUGAR WATER PALM OIL CORN SYRUP COCOA(PROCESSED WITH ALKALI) CONTAINS 26 OR LESS OF THE FOLLOWING MONO- AND DIGLYCERIDES, SALT, SOY LECITHIN CITRIC ACID, POTASSIUM SORBATE (PRESERVATIVE), ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR), CAKE (SUGAR BLEACHED ENRICHED FLOUR (WHEAT FLOUR MALTED BARLEY FLOUR NIACIN REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID) COCOA (PROCESSED WITH ALKALD VEGETABLE SHORTENING (SOYBEAN OIL VEGETABLE MONO- AND DIGLYCERIDES PROPYLENE GLYCOL ESTERS, TOCOPHEROLS VITAMIN C PALMITATE) DRIED EGG WHITES LEAVENING (SODIUM BICARBONATE SODIUM ALUMINUM PHOSPHATE, SODIUM ACID PYROPHOSPHATE MONOCALCIUM PHOSPHATE) CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF EACH OF THE FOLLOWING DRIED EGG YOLKS FOOD STARCHMODIFIED NONFAT DRY MILK WHEY PROTEIN CONCENTRATE (MILK) (MULSIFIER (PROPYLENE GLYCOL ESTERS MONO AND DIGLYCERIDES SODIUM STEAROYL LACTYLATE NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR SOYBEAN OIL SALE CELLULOSE GUM POLYSORBATE GO GUAR GUM SODIUM STEAROYL LACTYLATE XANTHAN GUM RED 40 SOY FLOURD, WATER CHOCOLATE TWISTS(SUGAR CHOCOLATE LIQUOR COCOA BUTTER MILK POWDER LACTOSE MUTTER OIL SOY LECITHIN, NATURAL VANILLA), SOYBEAN OIL. WHOLE EGGS.
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This product contains the following ingredient(s) that may be genetically engineered or derived from GE crops: Sugar Water, Corn Syrup, Sugars, Oil, Vegetable Shortening, Soybean, Modified Food Starch, Xanthan Gum, Mono And Diglycerides Of Fatty Acids, Lecithin (Soy), and Citric Acid [read more]
Environmental Impact: Contains eggs, which have a lower carbon footprint than meat.
Contains ingredients derived from wheat, milk, egg or soybean - these are considered major food allergens according to the FDA [read more]
8.0 servings per container
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