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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 [read more]
EWG calculates that this product is 28% sugar by weight and contains 3 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 1 of EWG's top food additives of concern: TITANIUM DIOXIDE
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 12 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: TITANIUM DIOXIDE
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 known to be a source of unhealthy artificial trans fats: Shortening [read more]
EWG calculates that this product is 28% sugar by weight and contains 3 teaspoons of added and natural sugar per serving [read more]
Contains the non-specific ingredient "flavor" [read more]
Product has been classified as having high processing concerns
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WATER, ENRICHED WHEAT FLOUR (WHEAT FLOUR, MALTED BARLEY FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID), ENRICHED WHEAT FLOUR (WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID), POWDERED SUGAR (SUGAR, CORNSTARCH) SHORTENING (CANOLA OIL , PALM OIL), GRANULATED SUGAR, CAKE BASE (SUGAR, ENRICHED WHEAT | FLOUR BLEACHED [FLOUR, NIACIN, IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID], FOOD STARCH- MODIFIED, SOYBEAN OIL, CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF: DEFATTED SOY FLOUR, EGGS, LEAVENING [BAKING SODA, SODIUM ALUMINUM PHOSPHATE], MONO- AND DIGLYCERIDES, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, PROPYLENE GLYCOL MONO- AND DIESTERS OF FATTY ACIDS, SALT, SODIUM STEAROYL LACTYLATE, VITAL WHEAT GLUTEN, WHEY), CONCENTRATE MIX (DEXTROSE, SUGAR, BLEACHED ENRICHED WHEAT FLOUR [MALTED BARLEY FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID], DRIED WHEY [MILK]. SALT, GUM ARABIC, LEAVENING [SODIUM ACID PYROPHOSPHATE, SODIUM BICARBONATE, MONOCALCIUM PHOSPHATE], SOYBEAN OIL, CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF THE FOLLOWING: MONO- AND DIGLYCERIDES, CALCIUM PROPIONATE, ENZYMES), BROWN SUGAR, WHOLE EGGS, SOYBEAN OIL, CORN SYRUP, GROUND CINNAMON, POWDERED MILK, YEAST, ICING STABILIZER (DEXTROSE, CALCIUM SULFATE, CALCIUM CARBONATE, AGAR AND 2% OR LESS OF EACH OF THE FOLLOWING: SALT, MONO- AND DIGLYCERIDES, TITANIUM DIOXIDE [COLOR), LOCUST BEAN GUM, CORN STARCH, ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, SODIUM ALUMINOSILICATE [FLOW AID]), DANISH IMPROVER ( CELLULOSE GUM, WHEAT FLOUR, GUAR GUM, SOYBEAN OIL, ASCORBIC ACID ENZYMES), MONOGLYCERIDE (WATER, MONOGLYCERIDES AND 2% OR LESS OF THE FOLLOWING: PRESERVATIVES [PROPIONOC ACID, PHOSPHORIC ACID]), SALT, MALTODEXTRIN, GUMS (VEGETABLE [GUMS (GUM ARABIC, GUAR GUM], WHEAT FLOUR, ENZYMES), NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVORS, ICING STABILIZER (SUGAR, CALCIUM CARBONATE, AGAR, SALT, MONOGLYCERIDES), PALM OIL, ENZYME BLEND (CALCIUM SULFATE, SALT AND 2% OR LESS OF EACH OF THE FOLLOWING: ENZYMES). BAKING POWDER (SODIUM BICORBONATE, SODIUM ALUMINUM SULFATE, CORNSTARCH, MONOCALCIUM PHOSPHATE, CALCIUM SULFATE), ENZYMES, TEXTURE IMPROVER (WHEAT FLOUR, ENZYMES, SALT). MONOGLYCERIDE (WATER, MONO- AND DIGLYCERIDES, ETHOXYLATED MONO- AND DIGLYCERIDES AND 2% OR LESS OF EACH OF THE FOLLOWING: POLYSORBATE 60, PRESERVATIVES [PHOSPHORIC ACID, SODIUM PROPIONATE]. POTASSIUM SORBATE (PRESERVATIVE).
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This product contains the following ingredient(s) that may be genetically engineered or derived from GE crops: Corn Starch, Shortening, Brown Sugar, Corn Syrup, Canola Oil, Sugars, Dextrose, Soy Flour, Confectionary Sugar, Maltodextrin, Modified Food Starch, and Mono And Diglycerides Of Fatty Acids [read more]
Environmental Impact: Contains eggs, which have a lower carbon footprint than meat.
Contains ingredients derived from wheat, soybean, milk or egg - these are considered major food allergens according to the FDA [read more]
14.0 servings per container
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