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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: Canola Oil and Mono And Diglycerides Of Fatty Acids [read more]
Contains 55% of the Institute of Medicine's daily sodium (salt) recommendations based on adequate intake [read more]
Per gram, high in protein [read more]
This product contains added sugar ingredients: Sugars and Dextrose [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]
No ingredient concerns identified for this product [read more]
Contains 2 of EWG's top food additives of concern: Sodium Nitrite and YELLOW 5
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 1 ingredient(s) associated with cancer: Sodium Nitrite
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]
No ingredient concerns identified for this product [read more]
Contains food additives of higher concern
Contains 2 of EWG's top food additives of concern: Sodium Nitrite and YELLOW 5
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: Canola Oil and Mono And Diglycerides Of Fatty Acids [read more]
Contains the non-specific ingredient "flavor" [read more]
Contains 55% 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]
This product contains added sugar ingredients: Sugars and Dextrose [read more]
Product has been classified as having high processing concerns
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BACON EGG & CHEESE STUFFED HASHBROWN (BACON EGG & CHEESE STUFFED HASHBROWN (POTATO SHREDS [POTATOES, DEXTROSE, SODIUM ACID PYROPHOSPHATE (PRESERVATIVE)], SCRAMBLED EGGS (WHOLE EGGS, SKIM MILK, SOYBEAN OIL, CORN STARCH, SALT, XANTHAN GUM, CITRIC ACID), WATER. PASTEURIZED PROCESS CHEDDAR CHEESE [CHEDDAR CHEESE (MILK, CHEESE CULTURE, SALT, ENZYMES) WATER, MILKFAT, SODIUM PHOSPHATE, SODIUM HEXAMETAPHOSPHATE, SALT, ARTIFICIAL COLOR], BLEACHED WHEAT FLOUR, ENRICHED WHEAT FLOUR (WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, FERROUS SULFATE THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID), BACON (CURED WITH WATER, SALT, SUGAR, SODIUM PHOSPHATE, SODIUM ERYTHORBATE, SODIUM NITRITE), ENRICHED BLEACHED WHEAT FLOUR (WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, FERROUS SULFATE, THIAMINE MONONITRATE RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID), VEGETABLE OIL (SOYBEAN AND/OR CANOLA), FOOD STARCH - MODIFIED CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF CELLULOSE GUM, CHEESE SAUCE MIX [DEHYDRATED BLEND OF CHEESE (SEMISOFT AND CHEDDAR CHEESES (PASTEURIZED MILK, CHEESE CULTURE, SALT, ENZYMES)), FOOD STARCH-MODIFIED, WHEY, SALT, CELLULOSE GUM, BUTTER (CREAM, SALT), SODIUM PHOSPHATE SILICON DIOXIDE, LACTIC ACID, CITRIC ACID, YELLOW 5, YELLOW 51. CORN STARCH, DEHYDRATED GARLIC, DEHYDRATED ONION, DEXTROSE, EXTRACTIVES OF PAPRIKA (COLOR), LEAVENING (SODIUM ACID PYROPHOSPHATE, SODIUM BICARBONATE, NATURAL FLAVOR, PAPRIKA (COLOR), PORK FLAVOR [HICKORY SMOKE FLAVOR, MONO AND DIGLYCERIDES, DISODIUM INOSINATE & DISODIUM SUANYLATE XAN THAN GUM, SALT, LACTOSE, SUGAR], SALT, SPICES, SUGAR, TRICALCIUM PHOSPHATE, TURMERIC OLEORESIN (COLOR), WHEY, YEAST, YELLOW CORN FLOUR), DEEP FRYING OIL (HIGH OLEIC SOYBEAN OIL WITH DIMETHYLPOLYSILOXANE))
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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, Canola Oil, Sugars, Dextrose, Vegetable Oil, Oil, Modified Food Starch, Xanthan Gum, Mono And Diglycerides Of Fatty Acids, Lactic Acid, and Citric Acid [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, milk, egg or soybean - these are considered major food allergens according to the FDA [read more]
2.0 servings per container
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