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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, Cottonseed, Diacetyltartaric & Fatty Acid Esters of Glycerol (472e), and Mono And Diglycerides Of Fatty Acids [read more]
Contains low calorie sweeteners: Acesulphame Potassium and Sucralose [read more]
Contains 48% 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 Microcrystalline [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 5 of EWG's top food additives of concern: Sodium Nitrite, RED 40, BLUE 1, BHA, 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
Rice-based ingredients may contain arsenic [read more]
This product has 18 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 5 of EWG's top food additives of concern: Sodium Nitrite, RED 40, BLUE 1, BHA, 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, Cottonseed, Diacetyltartaric & Fatty Acid Esters of Glycerol (472e), 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: Acesulphame Potassium and Sucralose [read more]
Contains 48% 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]
Rice-based ingredients may contain arsenic [read more]
Product has been classified as having high processing concerns
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PURIFIED DRINKING WATER; SUB BUN (ENRICHED FLOUR [WHEAT FLOUR, MALTED BARLEY FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMIN MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID], WATER, WHOLE WHEAT FLOUR, SUGAR, CONTAINS LESS THAN 2% OF SOYBEAN OIL, DOUGH CONDITIONERS [MONO & DIGLYCERIDES, SODIUM STEAROYL LACTYLATE, DATEM, ENZYME MODIFIED SOY LECITHIN, ASCORBIC ACID], YEAST, SALT, ENZYMES, GUAR GUM, METHYLCELLULOSE, CALCIUM PROPIONATE [PRESERVATIVE] , XANTHAN GUM, ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, SOY LECITHIN); HAM - WATER ADDED - CHOPPED AND FORMED (HAM, WATER, CONTAINS LESS THAN 2% OF SODIUM LACTATE, POTASSIUM CHLORIDE, MODIFIED CORNSTARCH, SODIUM PHOSPHATES, SUGAR, SALT, SODIUM DIACETATE, SODIUM ASCORBATE, FLAVOR, SODIUM NITRITE); CHOCOLATÉ SANDWICH CREMES (ENRICHED FLOUR [WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID], SUGAR, SOYBEAN OIL, PALM AND SOYBEAN OIL, COCOA [PROCESSED WITH ALKALI], DEXTROSE, HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP, CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF CORN STARCH, SODIUM BICARBONATE [LEAVENER], SALT , ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, SOY LECITHIN, CHOCOLATE); POTATO CRISPS (DRIED POTATOES, VEGETABLE OIL [CORN, COTTONSEED, HIGH OLEIC SOYBEAN, AND/OR SUNFLOWER OIL), DEGERMINATED YELLOW CORN FLOUR, CORNSTARCH, RICE FLOUR, MALTODEXTRIN, MONO- AND DIGLYCERIDES, SALT, WHEAT STARCH); AMERICAN PASTEURIZED PREPARED CHEESE PRODUCT (MILK, WATER, MILK PROTEIN CONCENTRATE , MILKFAT, WHEY PROTEIN CONCENTRATE, SODIUM CITRATE, WHEY, SALT, LACTIC ACID, SORBIC ACID AS A PRESERVATIVE, CHEESE CULTURE, ENZYMES, OLEORESIN PAPRIKA [COLOR], ANNATTO [COLOR], WITH SUNFLOWER LECITHIN ADDED FOR SLICE SEPARATION); NONFAT MAYONNAISE DRESSING (WATER, VINEGAR, MODIFIED CORNSTARCH, SUGAR, HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP, SOYBEAN OIL*, CONTAINS LESS THAN 2% OF SALT, CELLULOSE GEL, EGG YOLKS*, ARTIFICIAL COLOR, XANTHAN GUM, MUSTARD FLOUR, LACTIC ACID, PHOSPHORIC ACID, CELLULOSE GUM, VITAMIN E ACETATE, LEMON JUICE CONCENTRATE, BETA CAROTENE [COLOR), DRIED GARLIC, DRIED ONIONS, YELLOW 6, BLUE 1, WITH POTASSIUM SORBATE AND CALCIUM DISODIUM EDTA AS PRESERVATIVES. *TRIVIAL SOURCE OF FAT AND CHOLESTEROL), CONTAINS: EGG; TROPICAL PUNCH ARTIFICIAL FLAVORED SOFT DRINK MIX (SUGAR, FRUCTOSE, CITRIC ACID, CONTAINS LESS THAN 2% OF ASCORBIC ACID (VITAMIN CJ , NATURAL AND ARTIACIAL 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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This product contains the following ingredient(s) that may be genetically engineered or derived from GE crops: Corn Flour, Corn Starch, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Fructose, Cottonseed, Sugars, Dextrose, Vegetable Oil, Corn, Maltodextrin, 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.
Environmental Impact: Contains eggs, which have a lower carbon footprint than meat.
Contains ingredients derived from wheat and milk - these are considered major food allergens according to the FDA [read more]
1.0 servings per container
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