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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 40% sugar by weight and contains 10 teaspoons of added sugar per serving [read more]
Contains 22% 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]
Contains 3 of EWG's top food additives of concern: RED 40, BLUE 1, and YELLOW 6
Contains synthetic food dyes [read more]
This product has 12 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 3 of EWG's top food additives of concern: RED 40, BLUE 1, and YELLOW 6
Contains ingredients known to be a source of unhealthy artificial trans fats: Vegetable Shortening [read more]
EWG calculates that this product is 40% sugar by weight and contains 10 teaspoons of added sugar per serving [read more]
Contains synthetic food dyes [read more]
Contains the non-specific ingredient "flavor" [read more]
Contains 22% 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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FROSTING ((SUGAR, VEGETABLE SHORTENING(PALM OIL, CANOLA OIL, MONOAND DIGLYCERIDES), WATER, CORN SYRUP.CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF EACH OF THE FOLLOWING:HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP, CORN STARCH, BLUE 1, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, SALT, GUAR GUM, PHOSPHORIC ACID, POTASSIUM SORBATE (PRESERVATIVE), POLYSORBATE 60, SODIUM BENZOATE(PRESERVATIVE))., WATER, GLYCERINE, SUGAR, FD&C YELLOW #6, FD&C RED #40, MODIFIED CORN STARCH, FD&C BLUE #1, CARRAGEENAN, POTASSIUM SORBATE (PRESERVATIVE), XANTHAN GUM, CITRIC ACID, MALTODEXTRIN, DEXTROSE.), CAKE(SUGAR, BLEACHED ENRICHED WHEAT FLOUR (WHEAT FLOUR, MALTED BARLEY FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID), VEGETABLE SHORTENING[SOYBEAN OIL, VEGETABLE MONO & DIGLYCERIDES, DISTILLED PROPYLENE GLYCOL ESTER, TOCOPHEROLS(VITAMIN E) AND VITAMIN C PALMITATE(AS ANTIOXIDANTS)], DRIED EGG WHITES, LEAVENING(SODIUM BICARBONATE, SODIUM ALUMINUM PHOSPHATE, MONOCALCIUM PHOSPHATE, SODIUM ACID PYROPHOSPHATE), DRIED EGG YOLKS.CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF EACH OF THE FOLLOWING:NONFAT DRY MILK, FOOD STARCH-MODIFIED, SALT, DEXTROSE, CELLULOSE, DISTILLED MONOGLYCERIDES, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVORS(MILK), SODIUM STEAROYL LACTYLATE, POLYSORBATE 60, EMULSIFIER(PROPYLENE GLYCOL ESTERS OF FATTY ACIDS, DISTILLED MONOGLYCERIDES, SODIUM STEAROYL LACTYLATE), GUAR GUM, XANTHAN GUM, SOY FLOUR), WATER, SOYBEAN OIL.
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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, Soy Flour, Vegetable Shortening, Maltodextrin, Modified Food Starch, Xanthan Gum, Modified Starch (Corn), Mono And Diglycerides Of Fatty Acids, and Citric Acid [read more]
Environmental Impact: Contains eggs, which have a lower carbon footprint than meat.
Contains ingredients derived from wheat, soybean or milk - these are considered major food allergens according to the FDA [read more]
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