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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]
Contains 70% of the Institute of Medicine's daily sodium (salt) recommendations based on adequate intake [read more]
This product contains added sugar ingredients: Fondant Sugar, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Fructose, Brown Sugar, Corn Syrup, Sugars, Dextrose, and Sucrose [read more]
Good source of naturally occurring iron [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]
Includes ingredient(s) derived from animals that were possibly treated with antibiotics and/or growth promoters: Egg, Cream, Condensed Milk, and Butter [read more]
This product has 5 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 ingredients known to be a source of unhealthy artificial trans fats: Shortening [read more]
Contains the non-specific ingredient "flavor" [read more]
Contains 70% of the Institute of Medicine's daily sodium (salt) recommendations based on adequate intake [read more]
This product contains added sugar ingredients: Fondant Sugar, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Fructose, Brown Sugar, Corn Syrup, Sugars, Dextrose, and Sucrose [read more]
Good source of naturally occurring iron [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: Egg, Cream, Condensed Milk, and Butter [read more]
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EWG's 2014 Shopper's Guide to Avoiding GE Food
COOKIE (WHEAT FLOUR, SALTED BUTTER [PASTEURIZED CREAM, SALT], SUGAR, BROWN SUGAR, WHOLE EGGS [PASTEURIZED EGG, NISIN AS PRESERVATIVE], HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP [FRUCTOSE, DEXTROSE, MALTOSE, HIGHER SACCHARIDES], SALT, NATURAL VANILLA FLAVOR [WATER, CORN SYRUP. ETHYL ALCOHOL, AND NATURAL FLAVORS], SODIUM BICARBONATE, BAKING POWDER [CORNSTARCH, SODIUM BICARBONATE, SODIUM ALUMINUM SULFATE, MONOCALCIUM PHOSPHATE]), ICING (WHIP TOPPING [WATER, HYDROGENATED PALM KERNEL OIL, HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP, CORN SYRUP, SUGAR, CONTAINS LESS THAN 2% OF THE FOLLOWING: SODIUM CASEINATE (MILK DERIVATIVE), ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, POLYSORBATE 60, SORBITAN MONOSTEARATE, SALT, SOY LECITHIN, MONO AND DIGLYCERIDES, CARRAGEENAN, COLORED WITH BETA CAROTENE], FONDANT SUGAR [SUCROSE, CORN STARCH], SALTED BUTTER [PASTEURIZED CREAM, SALT], ALL PURPOSE SHORTENING [SOYBEAN OIL, HYDROGENATED SOYBEAN OIL, HYDROGENATED COOTRSEED OIL], SHORTENING [MODIFIED PALM AND PALM OILS, CANOLA OIL, VEGETABLE MONO & DIGLYCERIDES, POLYSORBATE 80], FUDGE BASE [COCOA PROCESSED WITH ALKALI, PALM OIL, SOYBEAN OIL, CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF: ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, MONO-AND-DIGLYCERIDES, POLYSORBATE 60, SORBIC ACID, PROPYLENE GLYCOL, SALT, SOY LECITHIN, UNSWEETENED CHOCOLATE, WATER], VANILLA FLAVOR [WATER, PROPYLENE GLYCOL, ALCOHOL, ARTIFICIAL FLAVORS, CITRIC ACID]), VANILLA CARAMEL (CORN SYRUP, SWEETENED CONDENSED MILK, FRESH CREAM, SUGAR, HYDROGENATED PALM KERNEL OIL, SALT, ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, POTASSIUM SORBATE, SOY LECITHIN, CARRAGEENAN), PECANS AND SEA SALT.
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 Starch, Shortening, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Fructose, Brown Sugar, Corn Syrup, Canola Oil, Sugars, Dextrose, Oil, Sucrose, 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, egg or milk - these are considered major food allergens according to the FDA [read more]
1.0 servings per container
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