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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 and Mono And Diglycerides Of Fatty Acids [read more]
Per gram, high in protein [read more]
This product contains added sugar ingredients: Sugars, Dextrose, and Invert Sugar [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]
Rice-based ingredients may contain arsenic [read more]
Includes ingredient(s) derived from animals that were possibly treated with antibiotics and/or growth promoters: Milk (Fat Free), Cream (Sour Cream), Cream, and Buttermilk [read more]
This product has 4 ingredients with concerns as well as some contamination 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 lower concern
Contains ingredients that may contribute small amounts of unhealthy artificial trans fats: Cottonseed and Mono And Diglycerides Of Fatty Acids [read more]
Contains the non-specific ingredient "flavor" [read more]
Per gram, high in protein [read more]
This product contains added sugar ingredients: Sugars, Dextrose, and Invert Sugar [read more]
Rice-based ingredients may contain arsenic [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 (Fat Free), Cream (Sour Cream), Cream, and Buttermilk [read more]
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EWG's 2014 Shopper's Guide to Avoiding GE Food
CHEEZ-IT® ORIGINAL - ENRICHED FLOUR (WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, VITAMIN Bâ [THIAMIN MONONITRATE], VITAMIN Bâ [RIBOFLAVIN], FOLIC ACID), VEGETABLE OIL (HIGH OLEIC SOYBEAN, SOYBEAN, PALM, AND/OR CANOLA OIL WITH TBHQ FOR FRESHNESS), CHEESE MADE WITH SKIM MILK (SKIM MILK, WHEY PROTEIN, SALT, CHEESE CULTURES, ENZYMES, ANNATTO EXTRACT COLOR), CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF SALT, PAPRIKA, YEAST, PAPRIKA EXTRACT COLOR, SOY LECITHIN, CHEEZ-IT GROOVES® SHARP WHITE CHEDDAR - ENRICHED FLOUR (WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, VITAMIN Bâ [THIAMIN MONONITRATE], VITAMIN Bâ [RIBOFLAVIN], FOLIC ACID), RICE FLOUR, SOYBEAN OIL (WITH TBHQ FOR FRESHNESS), WHITE CHEDDAR CHEESE (MILK, CHEESE CULTURES, SALT, ENZYMES), CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF SUGAR, SALT, SOY LECITHIN, CHEDDAR CHEESE (MILK, CHEESE CULTURES, SALT, ENZYMES), WHEY, LEAVENING (BAKING SODA, SODIUM ACID PYROPHOSPHATE, MONOCALCIUM PHOSPHATE), NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVORS, MONOSODIUM GLUTAMATE, LACTIC ACID, BUTTERMILK, YEAST EXTRACT, CITRIC ACID, DISODIUM INOSINATE, DISODIUM GUANYLATE, BUTTER (CREAM, SALT), CHEEZ -IT® CHEDDAR JACK - ENRICHED FLOUR (WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, VITAMIN Bâ [THIAMIN MONONITRATE], VITAMIN Bâ [RIBOFLAVIN], FOLIC ACID), VEGETABLE OIL (SOYBEAN AND PALM OIL WITH TBHQ FOR FRESHNESS), CHEESE MADE WITH SKIM MILK (SKIM MILK, WHEY PROTEIN, SALT, CHEESE CULTURES, ENZYMES, ANNATTO EXTRACT COLOR), SALT, CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF WHEY, PAPRIKA, CHEDDAR CHEESE (MILK, CHEESE CULTURES, SALT, ENZYMES), BUTTERMILK, TOMATO POWDER, GARLIC POWDER, MONOSODIUM GLUTAMATE, YEAST, ONION POWDER, PAPRIKA EXTRACT COLOR, MONTEREY JACK CHEESE (MILK, CHEESE CULTURES, SALT, ENZYMES), SUGAR, MALIC ACID, ANNATTO EXTRACT COLOR, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVORS, DISODIUM INOSINATE, DISODIUM GUANYLATE, SPICE EXTRACT, YEAST EXTRACT, YELLOW 5, YELLOW 6, SOY LECITHIN, PRINGLES® BBQ FLAVORED POTATO CRISPS - DRIED POTATOES, VEGETABLE OIL (CORN, COTTONSEED, HIGH OLEIC SOYBEAN, AND/OR SUNFLOWER OIL), DEGERMINATED YELLOW CORN FLOUR, CORNSTARCH, RICE FLOUR, MALTODEXTRIN, SUGAR, MONO- AND DIGLYCERIDES, CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF SALT, TOMATO POWDER, MONOSODIUM GLUTAMATE, CITRIC ACID, ONION POWDER, SPICE, GARLIC POWDER, YEAST EXTRACT, HYDROLYZED CORN PROTEIN, MALTED BARLEY FLOUR, MALIC ACID, DISODIUM INOSINATE, DISODIUM GUANYLATE, PAPRIKA EXTRACT COLOR, NATURAL FLAVORS, WHEY, WHEAT STARCH, PRINGLES® SOUR CREAM & ONION FLAVORED POTATO CRISPS - DRIED POTATOES, VEGETABLE OIL (CORN, COTTONSEED, HIGH OLEIC SOYBEAN, AND/OR SUNFLOWER OIL), DEGERMINATED YELLOW CORN FLOUR, CORNSTARCH, RICE FLOUR, MALTODEXTRIN, MONO- AND DIGLYCERIDES, CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF SALT, WHEY, SOUR CREAM (CREAM, NONFAT MILK, CULTURES), MONOSODIUM GLUTAMATE, ONION POWDER, COCONUT OIL, DEXTROSE, SUGAR, NATURAL FLAVORS, NONFAT MILK, CITRIC ACID, SODIUM CASEINATE, LACTIC ACID, YEAST EXTRACT, DISODIUM INOSINATE, DISODIUM GUANYLATE, BUTTERMILK, MALIC ACID, INVERT SUGAR, CULTURED NONFAT MILK, CREAM, WHEAT STARCH
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: Corn Flour, Corn Starch, Cottonseed, Sugars, Dextrose, Vegetable Oil, Corn, Invert Sugar, Maltodextrin, Mono And Diglycerides Of Fatty Acids, Lactic Acid, and Citric Acid [read more]
Contains ingredients derived from milk, wheat or tree nut - these are considered major food allergens according to the FDA [read more]
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