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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 49% sugar by weight and contains 10 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]
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]
No ingredient concerns identified for this product [read more]
Contains 7 of EWG's top food additives of concern: RED 40, RED 40 LAKE, FD&C BLUE #2, BLUE 1, BLUE 1 LAKE, YELLOW 5, and YELLOW 6
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 synthetic food dyes [read more]
Rice-based ingredients may contain arsenic [read more]
This product has 12 ingredients with concerns as well as some contamination 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]
No ingredient concerns identified for this product [read more]
Contains food additives of higher concern
Contains 7 of EWG's top food additives of concern: RED 40, RED 40 LAKE, FD&C BLUE #2, BLUE 1, BLUE 1 LAKE, YELLOW 5, and YELLOW 6
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: Vegetable Shortening [read more]
EWG calculates that this product is 49% sugar by weight and contains 10 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]
Rice-based ingredients may contain arsenic [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
CAKE: SUGAR, BLEACHED ENRICHED FLOUR (BLEACHED WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID), WATER, SOYBEAN OIL, EGGS, EGG WHITES, COCOA PROCESSED WITH ALKALI, MODIFIED CORN STARCH. CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF NONFAT MILK, LEAVENING (SODIUM ACID PYROPHOSPHATE, BAKING SODA, CORN STARCH, MONOCALCIUM PHOSPHATE), SALT, XANTHAN GUM, VITAL WHEAT GLUTEN, EMULSIFIERS (SORBITAN MONOSTEARATE, MONO- AND DIGLYCERIDES, POLYSORBATE 60, SODIUM STEAROYL LACTYLATE, SOY LECITHIN), DEXTROSE, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVORS, RED 40 LAKE, BLUE 1 LAKE, YELLOW 5 LAKE. ICING: SUGAR, VEGETABLE SHORTENING (INTERESTERIFIED SOYBEAN OIL, SOYBEAN OIL, HYDROGENATED COTTONSEED OIL, MONO- AND DIGLYCERIDES, POLYSORBATE 60, PALM OIL, CANOLA OIL), CORN SYRUP, WATER, COCOA PROCESSED WITH ALKALI, CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF SALT, CITRIC ACID, CORN STARCH, ALPHA TOCOPHEROL, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, DEXTROSE, TITANIUM DIOXIDE (FOR COLOR), POTASSIUM SORBATE (PRESERVATIVE), HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP, BLUE 1, RED 40, YELLOW 5, RED 40 ALUMINUM LAKE, BLUE 1 ALUMINUM LAKE, YELLOW 6, YELLOW 6 ALUMINUM LAKE, BLUE 2, LOCUST BEAN GUM, CARAMEL COLOR, INVERT SUGAR, SULFITES, SODIUM BENZOATE (PRESERVATIVES). QUINS: SUGAR, CORN STARCH, VEGETABLE OIL (PALM OIL, PALM KERNEL OIL), COCOA WITH ALKALI, CONTAINS LESS THAN 2% OF THE FOLLOWING: RICE FLOUR, VEGETABLE OIL (COCONUT, CANOLA), PALM OIL, ARTIFICIAL COLOR, TITANIUM DIOXIDE (COLOR), CONFECTIONER'S GLAZE, DEXTRIN, GUM ACACIA, XANTHAN GUM, TAPIOCA STARCH, TAPIOCA SYRUP, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, RED 40, BLUE 1, YELLOW 6, YELLOW 5, SOY LECITHIN, CARNAUBA WAX, POTASSIUM SORBATE (PRESERVATIVE), MONO AND DIGLYCERIDES, POLYSORBATE 60.
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This product contains the following ingredient(s) that may be genetically engineered or derived from GE crops: Corn Starch, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Corn Syrup, Canola Oil, Sugars, Dextrose, Vegetable Oil, Invert Sugar, Vegetable Shortening, Xanthan Gum, Modified Starch (Corn), 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 milk, wheat, egg or tree nut - these are considered major food allergens according to the FDA [read more]
18.0 servings per container
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