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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 and Vegetable Shortening [read more]
EWG calculates that this product is 39% sugar by weight and contains 10 teaspoons of added and natural sugar per serving [read more]
Contains a high level of saturated fat [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 8 of EWG's top food additives of concern: Potassium Bromate, TITANIUM DIOXIDE, RED 3, BLUE 1 LAKE, YELLOW 5, YELLOW 6, YELLOW #5 & #6 AND #5 LAKE, and TBHQ
Contains synthetic food dyes [read more]
Contains 1 ingredient(s) associated with cancer: Potassium Bromate
Includes ingredient(s) derived from animals that were possibly treated with antibiotics and/or growth promoters: Cheese (Cream Cheese), Cream (Sour Cream), Cream (Heavy Cream), Milk, Egg, Cream, Cheese (Ricotta), Condensed Milk, Butter, and Cheese Culture [read more]
This product has 17 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 8 of EWG's top food additives of concern: Potassium Bromate, TITANIUM DIOXIDE, RED 3, BLUE 1 LAKE, YELLOW 5, YELLOW 6, YELLOW #5 & #6 AND #5 LAKE, and TBHQ
Contains ingredients known to be a source of unhealthy artificial trans fats: Shortening and Vegetable Shortening [read more]
EWG calculates that this product is 39% sugar by weight and contains 10 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 1 ingredient(s) associated with cancer: Potassium Bromate
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: Cheese (Cream Cheese), Cream (Sour Cream), Cream (Heavy Cream), Milk, Egg, Cream, Cheese (Ricotta), Condensed Milk, Butter, and Cheese Culture [read more]
Natural vs. Artificial Flavors
EWG's Good Food On A Tight Budget
EWG's 2014 Shopper's Guide to Avoiding GE Food
POWDERED SUGAR (SUGAR, CORNSTARCH), CREAM CHEESE PASTEURIZED MILK AND CREAM, SALT, CAROB BEAN GUM, CHEESE CULTURE), SWEETENED CONDENSED MILK (MILK, SUGAR) (MILK), GRANULATED SUGAR, BLUEBERRIES, ENROBING FONDANT (CORN SYRUP, WATER), BUTTER (CREAM) (MILK), WHOLE MILK RICOTTA, (WHOLE MILK, CREAM, VINEGAR, SALT) (MILK), LIQUID WHOLE EGG (WHOLE EGGS, CITRIC ACID, WATER) (EGG), VEGETABLE SHORTENING (SOYBEAN OIL, HYDROGENATED SOYBEAN OIL, HYDROGENATED COTTONSEED OIL, MONO- AND DIGLYCERIDES, POLYSORBATE 60, TBHQ AND CITRIC ACID TO HELP PRESERVE FRESHNESS), WHEAT FLOUR (NIACIN, IRON, THIAMIN MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN FOLIC ACID), CAKE FLOUR (BLEACHED WHEAT FLOUR, FOLIC ACID) (WHEAT), WHEAT FLOUR (REDUCED IRON, POTASSIUM BROMATE, ENZYME), LEMON FILLING (SUGAR SYRUP, MODIFIED FOOD STARCH, PALM OIL, LEMON PUREE, CALCIUM CARRAGEENAN, SODIUM CITRATE, POTASSIUM SORBATE AS PRESERVATIVE, NATURAL FLAVOR, TITANIUM DIOXIDE, FD&S YELLOW #5 AND FD&C YELLOW #6), BROWN SUGAR, EGG YOLKS, CORN SYRUP SOLIDS, CELLULOSE GUM (EGG), SOUR CREAM (CULTURED PASTEURIZED GRADE A MILK AND CREAM, ENZYMES), CAKE SHORTENING (PROPYLENE GLYCOL, MONO- AND DIESTERS OF FATTY ACIDS, GLYCERYL-LACTO ESTERS AND FATTY ACIDS) (SOYBEANS), HEAVY CREAM (CONTAINS LESS THAN 0.5% OF: CARRAGEENAN, MONO AND DIGLYCERIDES, POLYSORBATE 80), WHOLE MILK (VITAMIN D3) (MILK), PURPLE SPRINKLES (HYDROGENATED PALM KERNEL OIL, SOYA LECITHIN, GUM ARABIC, CONFECTIONERS GLAZE, FD&C COLORS (BLUE #1 LAKE, RED #3 DYE) (SOYBEANS), LIGHT BLUE SPRINKLES (CORN STARCH, SUNFLOWER LECITHIN, MALTODEXTRIN, CARNAUBA WAX, VANILLIN, CELLULOSE GUM ., WHITE SPRINKLES (CONFECTIONER'S GLAZE) (SOYBEANS), PINK SPRINKLES (CONFECTIONER'S GLAZE, FD&C COLOR (R, GREEN SPRINKLES (HYGROGENATED PALM KERNEL OIL, FD&C COLORS (YELLOW #5 LAKE, BLUE #1 LAKE) (SOYBEANS), YELLOW SPRINKLES (YELLOW #5 DYE, YELLOW 85 LAKE) (SOYBEANS), MODIFIED TAPIOCA STARCH, SALT (YELLOW PRUSSIATE OF SODA), BAKING POWDER (SODIUM BICARBONATE, SODIUM ALUMINUM SULFATE), GROUND CINNAMON, NAT. VANILLA FI WONF (ETHYL ALCOHOL)
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This product contains the following ingredient(s) that may be genetically engineered or derived from GE crops: Sugar Syrup, Corn Starch, Shortening, Brown Sugar, Corn Syrup Solids, Corn Syrup, Sugars, Vegetable Shortening, Confectionary Sugar, Maltodextrin, Soybean, Modified Food Starch, Mono And Diglycerides Of Fatty Acids, Lecithin (Soy), Citric Acid, and Sodium Citrates [read more]
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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