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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: Palm Oil and Mono And Diglycerides Of Fatty Acids [read more]
Contains low calorie sweeteners: Sweeteners, Acesulphame Potassium, and Sucralose [read more]
Contains 45% of the Institute of Medicine's daily sodium (salt) recommendations based on adequate intake [read more]
Per gram, high in protein [read more]
Contains 1 added fiber ingredient(s): Cellulose Powder [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 7 of EWG's top food additives of concern: Sodium Nitrite, RED 40, BLUE 1, BHT, BHA, YELLOW 5, and YELLOW 6
Antibiotics were likely used in the production of this meat [read more]
Hormones and/or growth promoters were likely used in production of meat ingredients [read more]
Contains synthetic food dyes [read more]
Contains 1 ingredient(s) associated with cancer: Sodium Nitrite
This product has 19 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 higher concern
Contains 7 of EWG's top food additives of concern: Sodium Nitrite, RED 40, BLUE 1, BHT, BHA, YELLOW 5, and YELLOW 6
Antibiotics were likely used in the production of this meat [read more]
Hormones and/or growth promoters were likely used in production of meat ingredients [read more]
Contains ingredients that may contribute small amounts of unhealthy artificial trans fats: Palm Oil and Mono And Diglycerides Of Fatty Acids [read more]
Contains synthetic food dyes [read more]
Contains the non-specific ingredient "flavor" [read more]
Contains low calorie sweeteners: Sweeteners, Acesulphame Potassium, and Sucralose [read more]
Good source of naturally occurring vitamin A [read more]
Contains 45% of the Institute of Medicine's daily sodium (salt) recommendations based on adequate intake [read more]
Contains 1 ingredient(s) associated with cancer: Sodium Nitrite
Per gram, high in protein [read more]
Product has been classified as having high processing concerns
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PURIFIED DRINKING WATER, PIZZA SAUCE (WATER, TOMATO PASTE, SUGAR, CONTAINS LESS THAN 2% OF MODIFIED FOOD STARCH, GARLIC POWDER, SALT, ONION POWDER, SPICE, CITRIC ACID, DRIED BASIL, SEA SALT, SODIUM BENZOATE AND POTASSIUM SORBATE [ADDED AS PRESERVATIVES], XANTHAN GUM, NATURAL FLAVOR), PIZZA CRUST (ENRICHED FLOUR [WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID], WATER, WHOLE WHEAT FLOUR, SOYBEAN OIL, YEAST, SUGAR, CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF: REDUCED SODIUM SALT BLEND [SALT, POTASSIUM CHLORIDE, NATURAL FLAVOR], DOUGH CONDITIONER [WHEY (MILK), L-CYSTEINE], VITAL WHEAT GLUTEN, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVORS, MONO-DIGLYCERIDES, SODIUM STEAROYL LACTYLATE, RICE BRAN EXTRACT, CALCIUM PROPIONATE, DOUGH CONDITIONER [ENRICHED WHEAT FLOUR (WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE), ENZYMES], DEHYDRATED GARLIC, CELLULOSE POWDER), BAKED SNACK CRACKERS (ENRICHED FLOUR [WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMIN MONONITRATE (VITAMIN B1), RIBOFLAVIN (VITAMIN B2), FOLIC ACID], VEGETABLE OIL [SOYBEAN AND PALM OIL], CHEESE MADE WITH SKIM MILK [SKIM MILK, WHEY PROTEIN, CHEESE CULTURES, SALT, ENZYMES, ANNATTO EXTRACT FOR COLOR], CONTAINS TWO PERCENT OR LESS OF SALT, PAPRIKA, YEAST, PAPRIKA OLEORESIN FOR COLOR, SOY LECITHIN), GUMMY WORMS (CORN SYRUP, SUGAR, GELATIN, MODIFIED CORN STARCH, FUMARIC ACID, LACTIC ACID, CITRIC ACID, SODIUM CITRATE, CALCIUM LACTATE, SODIUM LACTATE, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVORS, TITANIUM DIOXIDE [COLOR], RED 40, YELLOW 5, YELLOW 6, BLUE 1), CHEESE BLEND (MOZZARELLA PASTEURIZED PREPARED CHEESE PRODUCT [PART-SKIM MILK, WATER, MILK PROTEIN CONCENTRATE, MILKFAT, CONTAINS LESS THAN 2% OF SALT, CHEESE CULTURE, SODIUM CITRATE, SORBIC ACID AS A PRESERVATIVE, ENZYMES, VITAMIN A PALMITATE, CELLULOSE POWDER ADDED TO PREVENT CAKING], PASTEURIZED PREPARED CHEESE PRODUCT [PASTEURIZED PART-SKIM MILK, WATER, MILK PROTEIN CONCENTRATE, MILKFAT, CONTAINS LESS THAN 2% OF SALT, CHEESE CULTURE, SODIUM CITRATE, SORBIC ACID AS A PRESERVATIVE, ENZYMES, APOCAROTENAL (COLOR), VITAMIN A PALMITATE, CELLULOSE POWDER ADDED TO PREVENT CAKING]), PEPPERONI MADE WITH PORK AND CHICKEN (PORK, MECHANICALLY SEPARATED CHICKEN, SALT, CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF PORK STOCK, SPICES [INCLUDING MUSTARD], DEXTROSE, LACTIC ACID STARTER CULTURE, OLEORESIN OF PAPRIKA, FLAVORING, SODIUM ASCORBATE, SODIUM NITRITE, BHA, BHT, CITRIC ACID), TROPICAL PUNCH ARTIFICIAL FLAVORED SOFT DRINK MIX (SUGAR, FRUCTOSE, CITRIC ACID, CONTAINS LESS THAN 2% OF ASCORBIC ACID [VITAMIN C, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, ACESULFAME POTASSIUM AND SUCRALOSE [SWEETENERS], CALCIUM PHOSPHATE, ARTIFICIAL COLOR, RED 40, BLUE 1, BHA [PRESERVES FRESHNESS])
Products remain in the database for two years after their label information is recorded in stores. A product with label information last recorded more than a year ago is marked with an * identifying it as an older product.
Products remain in the Database for two years after their label information is recorded in stores, even when they have been discontinued (products may remain in stores and pantries long past the date they cease to be manufactured). EWG marks a product it is aware has been discontinued with a banner identifying it as such.
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Environmental Impact: Contains chicken, which has a lower carbon footprint compared to other meats. [read more]
This product contains the following ingredient(s) that may be genetically engineered or derived from GE crops: Fructose, Corn Syrup, Sugars, Dextrose, Vegetable Oil, Modified Food Starch, Xanthan Gum, Modified Starch (Corn), Mono And Diglycerides Of Fatty Acids, Lecithin (Soy), Lactic Acid, Citric Acid, and Sodium Citrates [read more]
Environmental Impact: Contains pork, which has a higher carbon footprint relative to chicken, eggs and plant proteins.
Contains ingredients derived from milk and wheat - these are considered major food allergens according to the FDA [read more]
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