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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: Vegetable Shortening [read more]
EWG calculates that this product is 41% sugar by weight and contains 10 teaspoons of added and natural sugar per serving [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 6 of EWG's top food additives of concern: RED 40, TITANIUM DIOXIDE, RED 3, FD&C BLUE #2, BLUE 1, 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 16 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 6 of EWG's top food additives of concern: RED 40, TITANIUM DIOXIDE, RED 3, FD&C BLUE #2, BLUE 1, 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 known to be a source of unhealthy artificial trans fats: Vegetable Shortening [read more]
EWG calculates that this product is 41% 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]
Product has been classified as having high processing concerns
Natural vs. Artificial Flavors
EWG's Good Food On A Tight Budget
EWG's 2014 Shopper's Guide to Avoiding GE Food
CREAM CHEESE (PASTEURIZED MILK AND CREAM, CHEESE CULTURE, SALT, STABILIZERS [CAROB BEAN AND/OR XANTHAN AND/OR GUAR GUMS]), SUGAR, SPONGE CAKE MIX (SUGAR, BLEACHED ENRICHED WHEAT FLOUR [MALTED BARLEY FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID], MODIFIED FOOD STARCH, EMULSIFIER AND FAT BLEND [SOYBEAN OIL, PROPYLENE GLYCOL MONOESTERS, MONO- AND DIGLYCERIDES, SOY LECITHIN, CITRIC ACID], LEAVENING (SODIUM BICARBONATE, SODIUM ALUMINUM PHOSPHATE, SODIUM ACID PYROPHOSPHATE, MONCALCIUM PHOSPHATE], DRIED WHEY, CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF PALM OIL, SALT, WHEAT GLUTEN, WHEAT STARCH, CELLULOSE GUM, SODIUM STEAROYL LACTYLATE, ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR), VANILLA WHIP (WATER, SUGAR, HYDROGENATED PALM KERNEL OIL, DEXTROSE, CORN SYRUP, CONTAINS LESS THAN 2% OF SODIUM CASEINATE, PRESERVATIVES [SODIUM BENZOATE, POTASSIUM SORBATE], CARBOHYDRATE GUM, POLYSORBATE 60, ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, SALT, SOY PROTEIN ISOLATE, POLYGLYCEROL ESTERS OF FATTY ACIDS, MONO- AND DIGLYCERIDES, SODIUM CITRATE, DISODIUM PHOSPHATE, SOY LECITHIN, XANTHAN GUM), EGG (WHOLE EGGS, CITRIC ACID, XANTHAN GUM), POWDERED SUGAR (SUGAR, CORNSTARCH), CORN SYRUP, WHIP CONCENTRATE (WATER, HYDROGENATED PALM KERNEL OIL, SUGAR, CORN SYRUP, CONTAINS LESS THAN 2% OF POLYSORBATE 60, CARBOHYDRATE GUM, ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, SALT, SODIUM STEAROYL LACTYLATE, SORBITAN MONOSTEARATE, SODIUM CITRATE, SOY LECITHIN, XANTHAN GUM, COLORED WITH ANNATTO), SOYBEAN OIL, WATER, PUMPKIN, VEGETABLE SHORTENING (PALM OIL, HYDROGENATED PALM OIL, MONO- AND DIGLYCERIDES, POLYSORBATE 60), EGG YOLKS, SODIUM SILICOALUMINATE (ANTI-CAKING AGENT), PUMPKIN FLAVOR (WATER, PROPYLENE GLYCOL, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVORS, TRAGACANTH GUM), DONUT SUGAR DEXTROSE, CORNSTARCH, PALM OIL, TITANIUM DIOXIDE (COLOR), HYDROGENATED COTTONSEED OIL, ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, SALT, CINNAMON, POTASSIUM SORBATE (PRESERVATIVE), GUM ACACIA, GROUND GINGER, NATURAL & ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, GROUND NUTMEG, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, GROUND CLOVES, ORANGE COLORING POWDER (FD&C BLUE 1, BLUE 2, RED 3, YELLOW 6, RED 40 &/OR TITANIUM DIOXIDE).
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This product contains the following ingredient(s) that may be genetically engineered or derived from GE crops: Corn Starch, Soy Protein Isolate, Corn Syrup, Sugars, Dextrose, Vegetable Shortening, Confectionary Sugar, Modified Food Starch, Xanthan Gum, 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 soybean, milk, wheat or egg - these are considered major food allergens according to the FDA [read more]
3.0 servings per container
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