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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 and Vegetable Shortening (Canola) [read more]
EWG calculates that this product is 37% sugar by weight and contains 3 teaspoons of added 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 7 of EWG's top food additives of concern: RED 40, RED 40 LAKE, TITANIUM DIOXIDE, RED 3, BLUE 1, YELLOW 5, and YELLOW 6
Contains synthetic food dyes [read more]
This product has 14 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 7 of EWG's top food additives of concern: RED 40, RED 40 LAKE, TITANIUM DIOXIDE, RED 3, BLUE 1, YELLOW 5, and YELLOW 6
Contains ingredients known to be a source of unhealthy artificial trans fats: Shortening and Vegetable Shortening (Canola) [read more]
EWG calculates that this product is 37% sugar by weight and contains 3 teaspoons of added sugar per serving [read more]
Contains synthetic food dyes [read more]
Contains the non-specific ingredient "flavor" [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
GINGERBREAD: ENRICHED WHEAT FLOUR (WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID), SUGAR, ENRICHED BLEACHED FLOUR (WHEAT FLOUR, CHLORINE, BENZOYL PEROXIDE, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID), PALM AND/OR CANOLA SHORTENING, MOLASSES, CINNAMON, GINGER, SALT, BAKING SODA, SOY LECITHIN. WHITE ICING: POWDERED SUGAR (SUGAR, FOOD STARCH), WATER, SUGAR, CORN SYRUP, TITANIUM DIOXIDE, SALT, STEARIC ACID, AGAR, POTASSIUM SORBATE (PRESERVATIVE), SODIUM BENZOATE (PRESERVATIVE), ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR. RED ICING: POWDERED SUGAR (SUGAR, FOOD STARCH), CORN SYRUP, WATER, SUGAR, SHORTENING (HYDROGENATED PALM KERNEL OIL, SOY LECITHIN), MONO- & DIGLYCERIDES, MODIFIED FOOD STARCH, SALT, AGAR, POTASSIUM SORBATE (PRESERVATIVE), SODIUM BENZOATE (PRESERVATIVE), ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, RED 40. CANDY STARS: DEXTROSE, CORN SYRUP, CITRIC ACID, CALCIUM STEARATE, TAPIOCA DEXTRIN, TITANIUM DIOXIDE, CONFECTIONER'S GLAZE, CARNAUBA WAX, ARTIFICIAL FLAVORS, RED 40, YELLOW 5, BLUE 1. GUMDROPS: SUGAR, CORN SYRUP, MODIFIED FOOD STARCH, LESS THAN 2% OF: NATURAL AND ARTIFICAL FLAVORS, CITRIC ACID, SODIUM CITRATE, MINERAL OIL, CARNAUBA WAX, RED 40, YELLOW 5, YELLOW 6, BLUE 1. MINI BEADS: DEXTROSE, CORN SYRUP, CITRIC ACID, MALTODEXTRIN, CALCIUM STEARATE, MAGNESIUM STEARATE, TAPIOCA DEXTRIN, TITANIUM DIOXIDE, CONFECTIONER'S GLAZE, CARNAUBA WAX, ARTIFICIAL FLAVORS, RED 40 LAKE, RED 3, RED 40, YELLOW 5 LAKE, YELLOW 5, BLUE 1, YELLOW 6.
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This product contains the following ingredient(s) that may be genetically engineered or derived from GE crops: Shortening, Corn Syrup, Sugars, Dextrose, Confectionary Sugar, Maltodextrin, Vegetable Shortening (Canola), Modified Food Starch, Mono And Diglycerides Of Fatty Acids, Lecithin (Soy), Citric Acid, and Sodium Citrates [read more]
Contains ingredients derived from wheat - these are considered major food allergens according to the FDA [read more]
24.0 servings per container
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