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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: Safflower Oil and Canola Oil [read more]
Contains 48% of the Institute of Medicine's daily sodium (salt) recommendations based on adequate intake [read more]
Good source of naturally occurring calcium [read more]
This product contains added sugar ingredients: Sugars and Cane Sugar [read more]
Contains 2 added fiber ingredient(s): Cellulose Powder and Rice Bran [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.
Contains 1 of EWG's top food additives of concern: Sodium Nitrite
Contains 1 ingredient(s) associated with cancer: Sodium Nitrite
Rice-based ingredients may contain arsenic [read more]
This product has 10 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.
Contains food additives of higher concern
Contains 1 of EWG's top food additives of concern: Sodium Nitrite
Contains ingredients that may contribute small amounts of unhealthy artificial trans fats: Safflower Oil and Canola Oil [read more]
Contains the non-specific ingredient "flavor" [read more]
Contains 48% of the Institute of Medicine's daily sodium (salt) recommendations based on adequate intake [read more]
Contains 1 ingredient(s) associated with cancer: Sodium Nitrite
Good source of naturally occurring calcium [read more]
This product contains added sugar ingredients: Sugars and Cane Sugar [read more]
Rice-based ingredients may contain arsenic [read more]
Product has been classified as having high processing concerns
Natural vs. Artificial Flavors
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EWG's 2014 Shopper's Guide to Avoiding GE Food
VEGETABLE MIX: BABY GREEN LEAF LETTUCE, BABY GREEN OAK LETTUCE, BABY GREEN TANGO LETTUCE, BABY RED LEAF LETTUCE, BABY RED OAK LETTUCE, BABY LOLLO ROSSA LETTUCE, BABY MIZUNA, BABY ARUGULA, BABY TATSOI, FRISEE, ENDIVE, BABY GREEN CHARD, BABY RED CHARD, BACON BUFFALO STYLE RANCH DRESSING: WATER, CANOLA OIL, PEPPER SAUCE (CAYENNE PEPPERS, DISTILLED VINEGAR, WATER, SALT, DRIED GARLIC), NON FAT BUTTERMILK (WHEY, WATER, SKIM MILK POWDER, CORN STARCH, TAPIOCA STARCH, CARRAGEENAN, LOCUST BEAN GUM, CULTURE), DISTILLED VINEGAR, MALTODEXTRIN, LESS THAN 2% OF BACON (CURED WITH WATER, SALT, SUGAR, SODIUM TRIPOLYPHOSPHATE. SODIUM ASCORBATE, SODIUM NITRITE, HICKORY SMOKE FLAVOR), DRIED GARLIC, DRIED ONION, MODIFIED CORN STARCH, SALT, SUGAR, BUTTERMILK FLAVOR (WHEY, BUTTERFAT, BUTTERMILK, LACTIC ACID), AUTOLYZED YEAST EXTRACT, XANTHAN GUM, PAPRIKA EXTRACT (COLOR), SPICES, MUSTARD FLOUR, DRIED RED PEPPER, NATURAL FLAVORS, CHICKEN: CHICKEN BREAST MEAT WITH RIB MEAT, WATER, SEASONING (HOT SAUCE POWDER [(CAYENNE RED PEPPERS, DISTILLED VINEGAR, SALT, GARLIC POWDER), MALTODEXTRIN, NATURAL FLAVOR], SALT, VINEGAR POWDER [MALTODEXTRIN, WHITE DISTILLED VINEGAR, MODIFIED FOOD STARCH], NATURAL BUTTER FLAVOR, PAPRIKA, SPICE, GARLIC POWDER), POTATO STARCH, VINEGAR, CHEESE: BLUE CHEESE (PASTEURIZED MILK, CHEESE CULTURE, SALT, ENZYMES, PENICILLIUM ROQUEFORTI), POWDERED CELLULOSE (TO PREVENT CAKING), MULTI-GRAIN CRACKERS: RICE FLOUR, WHOLE GRAIN YELLOW CORNMEAL, POTATO STARCH, SAFFLOWER OIL, RICE BRAN, CANE SUGAR, SESAME SEEDS, FLAX SEEDS, MILLET, SEA SALT, CRISPY RED BELL PEPPERS: RED BELL PEPPERS, ENRICHED WHEAT FLOUR (WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID), SUNFLOWER, SAFFLOWER AND/OR CANOLA OIL, 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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Environmental Impact: Contains chicken, which has a lower carbon footprint compared to other meats. [read more]
This product contains the following ingredient(s) that may be genetically engineered or derived from GE crops: Corn Starch, Corn Meal (Whole), Canola Oil, Sugars, Maltodextrin, Modified Food Starch, Xanthan Gum, Modified Starch (Corn), and Lactic Acid [read more]
Environmental Impact: Contains pork, which has a higher carbon footprint relative to chicken, eggs and plant proteins.
Contains ingredients derived from milk and wheat - these are considered major food allergens according to the FDA [read more]
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