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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]
EWG calculates that this product is 34% sugar by weight and contains 6 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 1 of EWG's top food additives of concern: BHT
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 11 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 1 of EWG's top food additives of concern: BHT
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 that may contribute small amounts of unhealthy artificial trans fats: Palm Oil and Mono And Diglycerides Of Fatty Acids [read more]
EWG calculates that this product is 34% sugar by weight and contains 6 teaspoons of added and natural sugar per serving [read more]
Contains the non-specific ingredient "flavor" [read more]
Product has been classified as having high processing concerns
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CAKE (CREME CAKE MIX [SUGAR, ENRICHED FLOUR BLEACHED (WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, IRON, THIAMIN MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID). SOYT AN OIL, MODIFIED CORN STARCH, 2% OR LESS OF: WHEY, MONO- & DIG' CERIDES. LEAVENING (BAKING SODA, SODIUM ALUMINUM PHOSPHATE) VIT: 1 WHEAT GLUTEN, SALT, SODIUM STEAROYL LACTYLATE, SORBITAN MCNOSTEARATE, CALCIUM ACETATE, NONFAT MILK, GUAR GUM, XANTHAN GUM, PRYSORBATE 60, NATURAL & ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, SOY FLOUR, EGG], WHOLE EGGS. SYBEAN OIL, CHOCOLATE [SUGAR, UNSWEETENED CHOCOLATE, COCOA BUTTER. [EXTROSE, SOY LECITHIN (EMULSIFIER), NATURAL VANILLA EXTRACT]. SOUR CREAM CULTURED CREAM) RASPBERRY PUREE [RASPBERRIES, BEET SUGAR), WATER. RASPBERRY PASTE [SUCROSE, GLUCOSE SYRUP. CONCENTRATED RASPBERRY PUREE MODIFIED WAXY MAIZE STARCH, CONCENTRATED RASPBERRY JUICE, CONCENTRATED PURPLE CARROT JUICE, CARMINE (COLOR), CITRIC ACID (ACIDULANT), ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR. POTASSIUM SORBATE, MONO- & DIGLYCERIDES (PREVENTS FOAMING]] NATURAL VANILLA FLAVOR [WATER. CORN SYRUP, ETHYL ALCOHOL, NATURAL FLAVORS]), ICING (VANILLA WRAP ICING [SUGAR, WATER, CORN SYRUP, AGAR, POTASSIUM SORBATE (PRESERVATIVE) ARTIFICIAL COLOR, CITRIC ACID NATURAL & ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, MONO- & DIGLYCERIDES LOCUST BEAN GUM], CREAM CHEESE ICING (SUGAR. MARGARINE (PALM OIL, WATER, SOYBEAN OIL, SALT, MONO- & DIGLYCERIDES. SOY LECITHIN SODIUM BENZOATE <PRESERVATIVE> CITRIC ACID, NATURAL & ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, BETA-CAROTENE <COLOR>, VITAMIN A PALMITATE WHEY). CREAM CHEESE (MILK, CHEESE CULTURE, SALT, CAROB BEAN GUM, ENZYMES). CORN SYRUP. WATER, NONFAT MILK, CORNSTARCH, 2% OR LESS OF ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, CORN SYRUP SOLIDS. MODIFIED FOOD STARCH, LEMON JUICE SOLIDS, LEMON OIL, POLYSORBATE 60. POTASSIUM SORBATE SOY LECITHIN, VITAMIN D]). CHOCOLATE CURLS (SUGAR. CHOCOLATE LIQUOR. COCOA BUTTER, BUTTER OIL, SOY LECITHIN, NATURAL VANILLA). PAN GREASE OIL (SOYBEAN OIL PETROLATUM, 2% OR LESS OF SUNFLOWER LECITHIN MONO- & DIGLYCERIDES BHT [ANTIOXIDANT])
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This product contains the following ingredient(s) that may be genetically engineered or derived from GE crops: Corn Starch, Beet Sugar, Corn Syrup Solids, Corn Syrup, Sugars, Dextrose, Soy Flour, Glucose Syrup, Oil, Soybean, Modified Food Starch, Xanthan Gum, Modified Starch (Corn), Sucrose, 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, soybean or egg - these are considered major food allergens according to the FDA [read more]
6.0 servings per container
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