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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: Shortening, Vegetable Shortening (Palm), and Vegetable Shortening [read more]
EWG calculates that this product is 24% sugar by weight and contains 11 teaspoons of added and natural sugar per serving [read more]
Contains 46% of the Institute of Medicine's daily sodium (salt) recommendations based on adequate intake [read more]
* Calculated based 100 grams & a single serving.
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 2 of EWG's top food additives of concern: Potassium Bromate and YELLOW 5
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 1 ingredient(s) associated with cancer: Potassium Bromate
This product has 13 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 2 of EWG's top food additives of concern: Potassium Bromate and YELLOW 5
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 known to be a source of unhealthy artificial trans fats: Shortening, Vegetable Shortening (Palm), and Vegetable Shortening [read more]
EWG calculates that this product is 24% sugar by weight and contains 11 teaspoons of added and natural sugar per serving [read more]
Contains the non-specific ingredient "flavor" [read more]
Contains 46% of the Institute of Medicine's daily sodium (salt) recommendations based on adequate intake [read more]
Contains 1 ingredient(s) associated with cancer: Potassium Bromate
Product has been classified as having high processing concerns
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DANISH SQUARES (ENRICHED BROMATED WHEAT FLOUR [BLEACHED WHEAT FLOUR, MALTED BARLEY FLOUR, IRON, NIACIN, POTASSIUM BROMATE, THIAMIN MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID], WATER, VEGETABLE MARGARINE [SOYBEAN OLL, FULLY HYDROGENATED SOYBEAN OLL, WATER, SALT, MONO & DIGLYCERIDES, ANNATTO & TURMERIC (COLOR), CALCLUM DISODIUM EDTA [PRESERVATIVE), ARTIFICIAL BUTTER FLAVOR, VITAMIN A PALMITATE], YEAST, SUGAR, DEXTROSE, VEGETABLE SHORTENING [SOYBEAN OIL, FULLY HYDROGENATED SOYBEAN OLL], PASTEURIZED NONFAT DRY MILK, PASTEURIZED WHOLE EGG SOLIDS [WHOLE EGG SOLLDS, SODIUM SILICO ALUMINATE [PROCESSING ALD)], POTATO FLOUR, MONO & DIGLYCERIDES, CITRIC ACID [ANTI OXIDANT], SALT, LEAVENING [BAKING SODA, SODIUM ACID PYROPHOSPHATE], NATURAL & ARTIFICIAL FLAVORS [MILK], SODIUM STEAROYL LACTYATE, WHEAT STARCH, SOYBEAN OIL, PROPYLENE GLYCOL, GUM BLEND [GUM ACACIA, GUAR GUM, XANTHAN GUM], ANNATTO & TURMERIC OLEORESINS [COLOR], CITRIC ACID, SODIUM BENZOATE [PRESERVATIVE], YELLOW 5), FILLING (CREAM CHEESE [PASTEURIZED MILK AND CREAM, SALT, CHEESE CULTURES, STABILIZER (CAROB BEAN GUM, XANTHAN GUM, GUAR GUM}], SUGAR, CAKE FLOUR [BLEACHED WHEAT FLOUR], ALL PURPOSE SHORTENING [INTERESTERIFIED SOYBEAN OLL, HYDROGENATED COTTONSEED OLL], BUTTER AND VANILLA FLAVOR [NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVORS (DEXTROSE, CORN STARCH, LESS THAN 1% TURMERIC, LESS THAN 1% APO CAROTENAL, ALCOHOL, NATURAL MIXED TOCOPHEROLS }], SALT [CONTAINS YELLOW PRUSSIATE OF SODA [(ANTICAKING AGENT)], VANILLA FLAVOR WATER, PROPYLENE GLYCOL, ALCOHOL, ARTIFICIAL FLAVORS, CITRIC ACID]), ICING (SUGAR, WATER, CORN SYRUP, CORNSTARCH, 2% OR LESS OF: AGAR AGAR, ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, DEXTROSE, FOOD STARCH MODIFIED, INVERT SUGAR, MONO & DIGLYCERIDES, POTASSIUM SORBATE, SALT, TITANIUM DIOXIDE [COLOR]). STREUSEL TOPPING (ENRICHED BLEACHED FLOUR (WHEAT FLOUR, MALTED BARLEY FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMIN MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID], SUGAR, VEGETABLE SHORTENING [PALM OIL], CORN SYRUP SOLIDS, CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF EACH OF THE FOLLOWING: SALT. NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR [CONTAINS MILK], YELLOW COLOR BLEND [WHEAT STARCH, ANNATTE AND TURMERIC EXTRACT]). HONEY GLAZE (CORN SYRUP, HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP, WATER, HONEY, SUGAR, 2% OR LESS OF DEXTROSE. PECTIN. PHOSPHORIC ACID, SODIUM BENZOATE [PRESERVATIVE]). WATER AND PASTEURIZED WHOLE EGGS.
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This product contains the following ingredient(s) that may be genetically engineered or derived from GE crops: Corn Starch, Shortening, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Corn Syrup Solids, Corn Syrup, Sugars, Dextrose, Margarine (Vegetable), Invert Sugar, Vegetable Shortening, Modified Food Starch, Xanthan Gum, 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 milk, wheat or egg - these are considered major food allergens according to the FDA [read more]
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