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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, Canola Oil, Cottonseed, Propylene Glycol Esters of Fatty Acids, and Mono And Diglycerides Of Fatty Acids [read more]
EWG calculates that this product is 50% sugar by weight and contains 18 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 4 of EWG's top food additives of concern: RED 40, TITANIUM DIOXIDE, RED 3, and BLUE 1
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 17 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 4 of EWG's top food additives of concern: RED 40, TITANIUM DIOXIDE, RED 3, and BLUE 1
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, Canola Oil, Cottonseed, Propylene Glycol Esters of Fatty Acids, and Mono And Diglycerides Of Fatty Acids [read more]
EWG calculates that this product is 50% sugar by weight and contains 18 teaspoons of added and natural sugar per serving [read more]
Contains synthetic food dyes [read more]
Contains the non-specific ingredient "flavor" [read more]
Rice-based ingredients may contain arsenic [read more]
Product has been classified as having high processing concerns
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VANILLA BUTTERGREME BASE (SUGAR, VEGETABLE SHORT ENING (PALM OIL, CANOLA OIL, MONO- AND DIGLYCERIDES, POLYSORBATE 60), CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF CORN STARCH, SALT, NATURAL FLAVORS), RASPBERRY FILLING [SUGAR, RASPBERRY PUREE, WATER, CORN SYRUP, MODIFIED FOOD STARCH (CORN), CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF EACH OF THE FOLLOWING: GELLAN GUM, CITRIC ACID, POTASSIUM SORBATE (PRESERVATIVE), CALCIUM LACTATE, RED 40, BLUE 1), BUTTER (CREAM), DARK CHOCOLATE MIRROR GLAZE [CHOCOLATE IN POWDER 30% (SUGAR, COCOA POWDER), GLUCOSE SYRUP, WATER, SUGAR, THICKENING AGENTS (AMIDATED PECTIN, CARRAGEENAN, TRICALCIUM PHOSPHATE), ACIDITY REGULATOR (LACTIC ACID), PRESERVATIVE (POTASSIUM SORBATE), FLAVORINGS), WATER, WHITE CHOCOLATE CURLS [SUGAR, COCOA BUTTER, WHOLE MILK POWDER, LACTOSE, SOY LECITHIN (EMULSIFIER), NATURAL VANILLA), WHITE PEARLY CRISPIES (SUGAR, WHOLE MILK POWDER, COCOA BUTTER, WHEAT FLOUR. GLAZING AGENT (SCHELLAC, GUM ARABIC), NATURAL VANILLA FLAVOR, BAKING AGENT (DI-AND POLYPHOSPHATES, SODIUM HYDROGEN CARBONATE, WHEAT FLOUR), COLOR (TITANIUM DIOXIDE), SALT, WHEAT FLOUR, SOY LECITHIN, RICE FLOURI, SUGAR, COCOA BUTTER, MILK POWDER [NONFAT DRY MILK, WHEY SOLIDS, LACTOSE, MILK PROTEIN), RICE FLOUR WATER, SUGAR, GLYCERINE, FD&C RED #3, MODIFIED CORN STARCH, FD&C BLUE #1, CARRAGEENAN, POTASSIUM SORBATE (PRESERVATIVE), XANTHAN GUM, CITRIC ACID, MALTODEXTRIN, DEXTROSE, YELLOW CORN FLOUR, WHOLE WHEAT FLOUR. OAT FLOUR, TITANIUM DIOXIDE, SOY LECITHIN, SEA SALT, GLAZE (CORN SYRUP, TAPIOCA DEXTRIN, MODIFIED COCONUT STARCH), VANILLA FLAVOR, VEGETABLE OIL (PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED SOYBEAN, COTTONSEED AND/ OR CANOLA OIL), CANOLA OIL, CHOCOLATE CAKE MIX (SUGAR, ENRICHED WHEAT FLOUR BLEACHED (FLOUR, NIACIN, IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID), COCOA PROCESSED WITH ALKALI, PALM OIL, EGG WHITES. SOYBEAN OIL, EGG YOLKS, LEAVENING (BAKING SODA, SODIUM ALUMINUM PHOSPHATE, MONOCALCIUM PHOSPHATE), CONTAINS 2% OF LESS OF CARAMEL COLOR, CELLULOSE GUM, DEFATTED SOY FLOUR, DEXTROSE, FOOD STARCH-MODIFIED, GUAR GUM, MONO- AND DIGLYCERIDES, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR NONFAT MILK, POLYSORBATE 60, PRESERVATIVE (CALCIUM ACETATE), PROPYLENE GLYCOL MONO AND DIESTERS OF FATTY ACIDS, RED 40, SALT, SODIUM STEAROYL LACTYLATE, SORBITAN MONOSTEARATE, SOY LECITHIN TETRASODIUM
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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, Corn Syrup, Canola Oil, Cottonseed, Sugars, Dextrose, Soy Flour, Vegetable Oil, Glucose Syrup, Maltodextrin, Modified Food Starch, Xanthan Gum, Modified Starch (Corn), Mono And Diglycerides Of Fatty Acids, Lecithin (Soy), Citric Acid, and Starch [read more]
Environmental Impact: Contains eggs, which have a lower carbon footprint than meat.
Contains ingredients derived from tree nut, wheat, milk or soybean - these are considered major food allergens according to the FDA [read more]
1.0 servings per container
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