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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: Safflower Oil, Distilled Monoglycerides, Palm Oil, Canola Oil, Cottonseed, Mono And Diglycerides Of Fatty Acids, and Canola [read more]
EWG calculates that this product is 27% sugar by weight and contains 2 teaspoons of added and natural sugar per serving [read more]
Contains a high level of saturated fat [read more]
Contains 2 added fiber ingredient(s): Corn Bran and Oat Fiber [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: RED 40, TITANIUM DIOXIDE, RED 3, FD&C BLUE #2, BLUE 1, 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 19 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]
Contains food additives of higher concern
Contains 7 of EWG's top food additives of concern: RED 40, TITANIUM DIOXIDE, RED 3, FD&C BLUE #2, BLUE 1, 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 that may contribute small amounts of unhealthy artificial trans fats: Safflower Oil, Distilled Monoglycerides, Palm Oil, Canola Oil, Cottonseed, Mono And Diglycerides Of Fatty Acids, and Canola [read more]
EWG calculates that this product is 27% sugar by weight and contains 2 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 a high level of saturated fat [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
FUDGE BROWNIE BITES ([CHOCOLATE COATING {SUGAR, COCOA BUTTER, CHOCOLATE LIQUOR, WHOLE MILK POWDER, SOY LECITHIN {AN EMULSIFIER}, SALT AND VANILLIN {AN ARTIFICIAL FLAVORING}], HEAT-TREATED WHEAT FLOUR, GRANULATED SUGAR, PALM KERNEL OIL, DARK BROWN SUGAR, COCOA POWDER, GLYCERIN, TAPIOCA SYRUP, ARTIFICIAL FLAVORS, CONFECTIONER'S GLAZE, SALT, XANTHAN GUM, ROSEMARY EXTRACT (TO PRESERVE FRESHNESS) [CANOLA OIL, NATURAL FLAVOR {ROSEMARY EXTRACT}, NATURAL MIXED TOCOPHEROLS, ASCORBIC ACID, SUNFLOWER OIL, CITRIC ACID, SUNFLOWER LECITHIN], POTASSIUM SORBATE), BIRTHDAY COOKIE SQUARES (WHEAT FLOUR, SUGAR, PALM OIL, NON PAREILS [SUGAR, CORN STARCH, CONFECTIONERS GLAZE, FD&C COLORS {RED #3, YELLOW #5, BLUE #1, YELLOW #6, RED #40, BLUE #2}, CARNAUBA WAX], NATURAL FLAVOR, SOY LECITHIN, SALT, BAKING SODA), SUGAR COOKIE FLAVORED CASHEWS (CASHEWS, SUGAR COOKIE SEASONING (SUGAR, NATURAL FLAVORS [INCLUDING BUTTER], BROWN SUGAR, SEA SALT, SWEET CREAM SOLIDS, SPICE, EXTRACTIVES OF TURMERIC, SILICON DIOXIDE [TO PREVENT CAKING]), VEGETABLE OIL [CANOLA, PEANUT, COTTONSEED, SAFFLOWER AND/OR SUNFLOWER OIL], SALT), WHITE COATED CEREAL, PRETZELS, AND CORN SQUARES (WHITE CONFECTIONERY COATING [SUGAR, PALM KERNEL OIL, NONFAT MILK POWDER, LACTOSE, TITANIUM DIOXIDE {AN ARTIFICIAL COLORING}, SOY LECITHIN {AN EMULSIFIER}, DISTILLED MONOGLYCERIDES, VANILLA], MICRO MINI TWIST PRETZELS [ENRICHED WHEAT FLOUR {WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID}, SALT, CONTAINS LESS THAN 2% OF: HIGH OLEIC CANOLA OIL AND/OR SOYBEAN OIL, CORN SYRUP, BARLEY MALT EXTRACT, LEAVENING {YEAST, SODIUM BICARBONATE AND/OR AMMONIUM BICARBONATE}], CORN BISCUITS [MILLED CORN, SUGAR, CORN BRAN, SALT, MOLASSES, BAKING SODA, MIXED TOCOPHEROLS {ADDED TO PRESERVE FRESHNESS}], ROUND CEREAL [WHOLE GRAIN OAT FLOUR, WHEAT STARCH, SUGAR, MODIFIED CORN STARCH, OAT FIBER, SALT, OAT EXTRACT, TRIPOTASSIUM PHOSPHATE, DICALCIUM PHOSPHATE, MIXED TOCOPHEROLS [ADDED TO PRESERVE FRESHNESS]), CAKE BATTER GLITTER STARS (SUGAR, PALM KERNEL OIL, HYDROGENATED PALM OIL, NATURAL FLAVOR(S), RED NO. 3, BLUE NO. 1, YELLOW NO.5, SOY LECITHIN, NATURAL VANILLA EXTRACT, MILK), CUPCAKE BITES (CONFECTIONARY COATING [SUGAR, HYDROGENATED PALM KERNEL OIL, NONFAT MILK POWDER, WHOLE MILK POWDER, TITANIUM DIOXIDE COLOR, SOY LECITHIN, ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR], HEAT-TREATED WHEAT FLOUR, SUGAR, PALM KERNEL OIL, VEGETABLE GLYCERIN, TAPIOCA SYRUP, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVORS, SPRINKLES [SUGAR, CORNSTARCH, RICE FLOUR, PALM OIL, GUM ACACIA, XANTHAN GUM, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, FD&C COLORS (BLUE 1, RED 40, YELLOW 5 AND YELLOW 6}, POTASSIUM SORBATE, MONO- AND DIGLYCERIDES, POLYSORBATE 60], SALT, XANTHAN GUM, SUNFLOWER LECITHIN, TO MAINTAIN FRESHNESS [ROSEMARY EXTRACT {CANOLA OIL, NATURAL FLAVOR, NATURAL MIXED TOCOPHEROLS, ASCORBIC ACID, SUNFLOWER OIL, CITRIC ACID, SUNFLOWER LECITHIN}, POTASSIUM SORBATE]).
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This product contains the following ingredient(s) that may be genetically engineered or derived from GE crops: Corn Starch, Corn Bran, Brown Sugar, Corn Syrup, Canola Oil, Cottonseed, Sugars, Vegetable Oil, Corn, Xanthan Gum, Modified Starch (Corn), Mono And Diglycerides Of Fatty Acids, Lecithin (Soy), Citric Acid, and Canola [read more]
Contains ingredients derived from wheat, milk or peanut - these are considered major food allergens according to the FDA [read more]
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