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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, Safflower, and Canola [read more]
Contains 23% of the Institute of Medicine's daily sodium (salt) recommendations based on adequate intake [read more]
Good source of naturally occurring calcium [read more]
This product contains added sugar ingredients: Sugars, Dextrose, and Gluconic Acid [read more]
Contains 1 added fiber ingredient(s): Cellulose Powder [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.
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]
This product has 4 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.
Contains food additives of lower concern
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: Canola Oil, Safflower, and Canola [read more]
Contains the non-specific ingredient "flavor" [read more]
Contains 23% of the Institute of Medicine's daily sodium (salt) recommendations based on adequate intake [read more]
Good source of naturally occurring calcium [read more]
This product contains added sugar ingredients: Sugars, Dextrose, and Gluconic Acid [read more]
Product has been classified as having high processing concerns
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EWG's 2014 Shopper's Guide to Avoiding GE Food
GREEN LEAF LETTUCE, AVOCADO RANCH DRESSING (VEGETABLE OIL [CANOLA AND/OR SOYBEAN OIL], NON FAT SOUR CREAM [CULTURED SKIM MILK, CORN STARCH, TAPIOCA STARCH, CARRAGEENAN, LOCUST BEAN GUM], WATER, AVOCADO, EGG YOLK, LESS THAN 2% OF BELL PEPPER*, GARLIC*, SUGAR, CILANTRO, MODIFIED CORN STARCH, DISTILLED VINEGAR, SALT, APPLE CIDER VINEGAR, SPICES, ONION*, LIME JUICE CONCENTRATE, SEASONING BLEND [DEXTROSE, SALT, NATURAL FLAVORS, MODIFIED CORN STARCH], XANTHAN GUM, CARRAGEENAN, GROUND MUSTARD, LEMON PEEL*, LACTIC ACID, GLUCONIC ACID, MALTODEXTRIN, CULTURED DEXTROSE), FOUR CHEESE BLEND (PASTEURIZED MILK, POWDERED CELLULOSE [TO PREVENT CAKING], CHEESE CULTURE, SALT, ENZYMES, ANNATO [VEGETABLE COLOR], NATAMYCIN [A NATURAL MOLD INHIBITOR]), TORTILLA STRIPS (STONE GROUND YELLOW AND BLUE CORN, SUNFLOWER OIL, SEA SALT, LIME), CHILI LIME TORTILLA STRIPS (CORN MASA FLOUR, VEGETABLE OIL [SUNFLOWER, SAFFLOWER AND/OR CANOLA], SEASONING [SOLT, SOUR CREAM POWDER {CREAM, NONFAT DRY MILK, CULTURES), PAPRIKA {COLOR}, MALTODEXTRIN, CITRIC ACID, SPICES, WHEY, LIME JUICE POWDER, CHILI PEPPER, EXTRACTIVE OF PAPRIKA (COLOR}]), SWEET CORN*, *DRIED
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This product contains the following ingredient(s) that may be genetically engineered or derived from GE crops: Corn Starch, Canola Oil, Sugars, Dextrose, Vegetable Oil, Corn, Maltodextrin, Xanthan Gum, Modified Starch (Corn), Lactic Acid, Citric Acid, and Canola [read more]
Environmental Impact: Contains eggs, which have a lower carbon footprint than meat.
Contains ingredients derived from milk - these are considered major food allergens according to the FDA [read more]
2.0 servings per container
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