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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, Canola Oil, and Mono And Diglycerides Of Fatty Acids [read more]
EWG calculates that this product is 40% sugar by weight and contains 13 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 3 of EWG's top food additives of concern: RED 40, YELLOW 5, and YELLOW 6
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 10 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 3 of EWG's top food additives of concern: RED 40, YELLOW 5, and YELLOW 6
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, Canola Oil, and Mono And Diglycerides Of Fatty Acids [read more]
EWG calculates that this product is 40% sugar by weight and contains 13 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]
Product has been classified as having high processing concerns
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CHOCOLATE CUPCAKE (SUGAR, ENRICHED FLOUR BLEACHED (WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID), SOYBEAN OIL, EGGS, WATER, COCOA PROCESSED WITH ALKALI, SEMI-SWEET CHOCOLATE (SUGAR, WHOLE MILK POWDER, COCOA BUTTER, UNSWEETENED CHOCOLATE, SOY LECITHIN (AN EMULSIFIER), SALT, NATURAL FLAVOR), CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF: MODIFIED CORN STARCH, CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF: MONO AND DIGLYCERIDES, LEAVENING (BAKING SODA, SODIUM ALUMINUM PHOSPHATE), MODIFIED WHEY (MILK), VITAL WHEAT GLUTEN, SALT, CALCIUM ACETATE, SORBITAN MONOSTEARATE, SODIUM STEAROYL LACTYLATE, NONFAT MILK, XANTHAN GUM, GUAR GUM, POLYSORBATE 60, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, SOY FLOUR.), FRENCH BUTTERCREAM (SUGAR, PALM AND SOYBEAN OIL (MONO- AND DIGLYCERIDES, POLYSORBATE 60, TBHQ (PRESERVATIVE), CITRIC ACID (TO PROTECT FLAVOR)), BUTTER (MILK), DEXTROSE, CORN STARCH, CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF: WATER, YELLOW 5, YELLOW 6, POTASSIUM SORBATE AND SORBIC ACID (PRESERVATIVES), LACTIC ACID, CITRIC ACID, CALCIUM DISODIUM EDTA (TO PROTECT FLAVOR), NATURAL FLAVORS), CHOCOLATE ICING (SUGAR, VEGETABLE OIL (PALM OIL, SOYBEAN OIL, CANOLA OIL), CORN SYRUP, FRUCTOSE, COCOA (PROCESS WITH ALKALI), WATER, DEXTROSE. CONTAINS LESS THAN 2% OF: CULTURED DEXTROSE, MONO AND DIGLYCERIDES, NATURAL FLAVOR, PHOSPHORIC ACID, SALT, SOY LECITHIN, UNSWEETENED CHOCOLATE), SPRINKLES (SUGAR, VEGETABLE OIL (PALM, PALM KERNEL), CORNSTARCH, ANATTO EXTRACT, CONFECTIONER'S GLAZE, DEXTRIN, VEGETABLE JUICE COLOR (PURPLE SWEET POTATO AND BEET), SPIRULINA EXTRACT, BETA CAROTENE, SOY LECITHIN, NATURAL FLAVOR, TURMERIC OLEORESIN, CARNAUBA WAX), CHERRIES (SWEET CHERRIES, WATER, CORN SYRUP, HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP, SUGAR, MALIC ACID, CITRIC ACID, NATURAL (PLANT SOURCE) AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVORS, SODIUM BENZOATE AND POTASSIUM SORBATE (PRESERVATIVES), RED 40, SULFUR DIOXIDE (PRESERVATIVE)).
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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, Fructose, Corn Syrup, Canola Oil, Sugars, Dextrose, Soy Flour, Vegetable Oil, Xanthan Gum, Modified Starch (Corn), Mono And Diglycerides Of Fatty Acids, Lecithin (Soy), Lactic Acid, 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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