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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: Cottonseed [read more]
EWG calculates that this product is 49% sugar by weight and contains 4 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, RED 40 LAKE, BLUE 1, and YELLOW 6
Contains synthetic food dyes [read more]
Includes ingredient(s) derived from animals that were possibly treated with antibiotics and/or growth promoters: Milk Powder (Fat Free), Milk, Cream, Milk Powder, Condensed Milk, and Butter [read more]
This product has 19 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 moderate concern
Contains 4 of EWG's top food additives of concern: RED 40, RED 40 LAKE, BLUE 1, and YELLOW 6
Contains ingredients that may contribute small amounts of unhealthy artificial trans fats: Cottonseed [read more]
EWG calculates that this product is 49% sugar by weight and contains 4 teaspoons of added and natural 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
Includes ingredient(s) derived from animals that were possibly treated with antibiotics and/or growth promoters: Milk Powder (Fat Free), Milk, Cream, Milk Powder, Condensed Milk, and Butter [read more]
Natural vs. Artificial Flavors
EWG's Good Food On A Tight Budget
EWG's 2014 Shopper's Guide to Avoiding GE Food
MILK CHOCOLATE (SUGAR, COCOA BUTTER, WHOLE MILK POWDER, CHOCOLATE LIQUOR, SOY LECITHIN ADDED AS AN EMULSIFIER, NATURAL VANILLA FLAVOR), DARK CHOCOLATE (SUGAR, CHOCOLATE LIQUOR PROCESSED WITH ALKALI, COCOA BUTTER, MILK FAT [MILK], SOY LECITHIN ADDED AS AN EMULSIFIER, NATURAL FLAVORS), PEANUT BUTTER MINI CHIPS (PARTIALLY DEFATTED PEANUTS, SUGAR, HYDROGENATED VEGETABLE OIL [PALM KERNEL AND SOYBEAN], CORN SYRUP SOLIDS, DEXTROSE, REDUCED MINERALS WHEY [MILK], CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF: PALM KERNEL OIL, SALT, VANILLIN [ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR], LECITHIN [SOY], RAISINS [COATED IN PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED VEGETABLE OIL (COTTONSEED, SOYBEAN]), SPANISH PEANUTS [PEANUTSVROASTED IN PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED VEGETABLE OIL (COTTONSEED, SOYBEAN) SALT], DRY ROASTED HAZELNUTS, DESSICATED COCONUT (COCONUT, SODIUM, METABISULFITE), CASHEWS [ROASTED IN PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED VEGETABLE OIL (COTTONSEED, SOYBEAN), SALT], ALMONDS (ALMOND, SEA SALT), PEANUT BUTTER (SHELLED PEANUTS, SUGAR, HYDROGENATED VEGETABLE OIL [RAPESEED, COTTONSEED, SOYBEAN], SALT, SUGAR, CORN SYRUP SOLIDS, CHOCOLATE (SUGAR, HYDROGENATED PALM KERNEL OIL, COCOA POWDER, WHEY POWDER [MILK], NONFAT MILK POWDER, SOY LECITHIN ADDED AS AN EMULSIFIER AND NATURAL VANILLA FLAVOR), WATER, EVAPORATED MILK (MILK, DIPOTASSIUM PHOSPHATE, CARRAGEENAN, VITAMIN D3), BUTTER (PASTEURIZED CREAM [MILK], SALT), ICING STABILIZER (HYDROGENATED PALM KERNEL OIL AND SOY LECITHIN), WHITE COATING (SUGAR, HYDROGENATED PALM KERNEL OIL, NONFAT MILK POWDER, SOY LECITHIN ADDED AS AN EMULSIFIER, MONOGLYCERIDES, ARTIFICIAL COLOR [TITANIUM DIOXIDE] AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR. SALT, BINASOL 15 (TAPIOCA FLOUR), SEA SALT (SALT, YELLOW PRUSSIATE OF SODA), INVERTASE AND GLYCEROL, VANILLA (WATER, PROPYLENE GLYCOL, VANILLIN OR ETHYL VANILLIN, CARAMEL COLOR), SALT (SALT, TRICALCIUM PHOSPHATE), CITRIC ACID, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVORS, GLYCERINE, WATER, PROPYLENE GLYCOL, GUM TRAGACANTH, PROPYLENE GLYCOL ALGINATE, SODIUM BENZOATE AS A PRESERVATIVE. RED 40, BLUE 1, FLAVORING (NATURAL RASPBERRY FLAVOR WITH OTHER NATURAL FLAVORS, WATER, CORN SYRUP, PUREED STRAWBERRIES, ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP, MODIFIED CORN STARCH, GUM TRAGACANTH, PROPYLENE GLYCOL ALGINATE, SODIUM BENZOATE, POTASSIUM SORBATE [AS PRESERVATIVE], ORANGE JUICE (WATER AND CONCENTRATED ORANGE JUICE), WATER, PINEAPPLE JUICE (WATER, CONCENTRATED PINEAPPLE JUICE, ASCORBIC ACID), YELLOW 6, MAPLE FLAVOR (WATER, SPICE, CARAMEL COLOR, PURE MAPLE SYRUP, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVORS, COFFEE, BUTTER FLAVOR (PROPYLENE GLYCOL), RUM (ARTIFICIAL AND NATURAL FLAVORS, CANE SYRUP, WATER, CORN SYRUP) RED COLOR (PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED VEGETABLE OIL [COTTONSEED, SOYBEAN], FD&C RED 40 LAKE), ORANGE COLOR (WATER, FD&C YELLOW 6 [E110], PROPYLENE GLYCOL, FD&C RED 40 [E129], CITRIC ACID, SODIUM BENZOATE (PRESERVATIVE]), ANTIOXIDANT (SWEET ALMOND OIL AND NATURAL FLAVORS).
Products remain in the database for two years after their label information is recorded in stores. A product with label information last recorded more than a year ago is marked with an * identifying it as an older product.
Products remain in the Database for two years after their label information is recorded in stores, even when they have been discontinued (products may remain in stores and pantries long past the date they cease to be manufactured). EWG marks a product it is aware has been discontinued with a banner identifying it as such.
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This product contains the following ingredient(s) that may be genetically engineered or derived from GE crops: High Fructose Corn Syrup, Corn Syrup Solids, Corn Syrup, Cottonseed, Sugars, Dextrose, Soybean, Modified Starch (Corn), Lecithin (Soy), and Citric Acid [read more]
Contains ingredients derived from milk, tree nut, peanut or soybean - these are considered major food allergens according to the FDA [read more]
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