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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: Palm Oil, Propylene Glycol Esters of Fatty Acids, and Mono And Diglycerides Of Fatty Acids [read more]
EWG calculates that this product is 37% sugar by weight and contains 21 teaspoons of added and natural sugar per serving [read more]
Contains a high level of saturated fat [read more]
Contains 39% 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 1 of EWG's top food additives of concern: RED 40
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 synthetic food dyes [read more]
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 1 of EWG's top food additives of concern: RED 40
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: Palm Oil, Propylene Glycol Esters of Fatty Acids, and Mono And Diglycerides Of Fatty Acids [read more]
EWG calculates that this product is 37% sugar by weight and contains 21 teaspoons of added and natural sugar per serving [read more]
Contains synthetic food dyes [read more]
Contains the non-specific ingredient "flavor" [read more]
Contains a high level of saturated fat [read more]
Contains 39% of the Institute of Medicine's daily sodium (salt) recommendations based on adequate intake [read more]
Product has been classified as having high processing concerns
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CHOCOLATE ICING (SUGAR, WATER, CORN SYRUP, PALM OIL, COCOA [PROCESSED WITH ALKALI], SOYBEAN OIL, MONO & DIGLYCERIDES, SALT, POLYSORBATE 60, POTASSIUM SORBATE & SORBIC ACID [AS PRESERVATIVES], SOY LECITHIN, NATURAL & ARTIFICIAL FLAVORS, DEXTROSE, CORN STARCH, CARAMEL COLOR, XANTHAN GUM, CELLULOSE GUM), CHOCOLATE CAKE (SUGAR, ENRICHED WHEAT FLOUR BLEACHED ([WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, FERROUS SULFATE, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID], COCOA PROCESSED WITH ALKALI, MODIFIED FOOD STARCH, SOYBEAN OIL, DRY WHEY, LEAVENING [BAKING SODA, SODIUM ALUMINUM PHOSPHATE], VITAL WHEAT GLUTEN, SALT, CARAMEL COLOR, PROPYLENE GLYCOL MONO & DIESTERS OF FATTY ACIDS, MONO & DIGLYCERIDES, SODIUM STEAROYL LACTYLATE, DEXTROSE, TRICALCIUM PHOSPHATE, ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, RED #40, CORN STARCH, SULFITES, CITRIC ACID, ASCORBIC ACID [DOUGH CONDITIONER], EGG, SOY FLOUR), WHIPPED TOPPING (WATER, SUGAR, HYDROGENATED PALM KERNEL OIL, DEXTROSE, SODIUM CASEINATE, CITRIC ACID, POLYSORBATE 80, SALT, XANTHAN GUM, POLYSORBATE 60, CARBOHYDRATE GUM, POLYGLYCEROL ESTERS OF FATTY ACIDS, POTASSIUM SORBATE [AS A PRESERVATIVE], MONO & DIGLYCERIDES), MALLOW CREME (HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP, CORN SYRUP, WATER, MODIFIED FOOD STARCH, TITANIUM DIOXIDE [COLOR], SALT, ARTIFICIAL FLAVORS, BENZOIC ACID [PRESERVATIVE], XANTHAN GUM), WATER, EGGS, SOYBEAN OIL, WHEAT FLOUR, BROWN SUGAR, MARGARINE (VEGETABLE OIL BLEND [PALM FRUIT OIL, SOYBEAN & OLIVE OILS] WATER, SALT, MONO AND DIGLYCERIDES, NATURAL FLAVOR, VITAMIN A PALMITATE, BETA CAROTENE COLOR), CHOCOLATE CHIPS (SUGAR, CHOCOLATE LIQUOR, COCOA BUTTER, SOY LECITHIN, NATURAL VANILLA FLAVOR, SALT), SUGAR, MODIFIED CORN STARCH, INVERT SUGAR, POWDERED SUGAR (SUGAR, CORN STARCH), NATURAL VANILLA FLAVOR, NONFAT DRY MILK, SALT.
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This product contains the following ingredient(s) that may be genetically engineered or derived from GE crops: Corn Starch, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Brown Sugar, Corn Syrup, Sugars, Dextrose, Soy Flour, Invert Sugar, Confectionary Sugar, Soybean, Modified Food Starch, Xanthan Gum, Modified Starch (Corn), Mono And Diglycerides Of Fatty Acids, Lecithin (Soy), and Citric Acid [read more]
Environmental Impact: Contains eggs, which have a lower carbon footprint than meat.
Contains ingredients derived from wheat, milk, soybean or egg - these are considered major food allergens according to the FDA [read more]
1.0 servings per container
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