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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 [read more]
EWG calculates that this product is 28% sugar by weight and contains 6 teaspoons of added and natural sugar per serving [read more]
Contains low calorie sweeteners: Stevia Extract [read more]
Contains a high level of saturated fat [read more]
Contains 37% of the Institute of Medicine's daily sodium (salt) recommendations based on adequate intake [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 2 of EWG's top food additives of concern: Sodium Nitrite and RED 40 LAKE
Antibiotics were likely used in the production of this meat [read more]
Hormones and/or growth promoters were likely used in production of meat ingredients [read more]
Contains 1 ingredient(s) associated with cancer: Sodium Nitrite
This product has 11 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 2 of EWG's top food additives of concern: Sodium Nitrite and RED 40 LAKE
Antibiotics were likely used in the production of this meat [read more]
Hormones and/or growth promoters were likely used in production of meat ingredients [read more]
Contains ingredients that may contribute small amounts of unhealthy artificial trans fats: Palm Oil [read more]
EWG calculates that this product is 28% sugar by weight and contains 6 teaspoons of added and natural sugar per serving [read more]
Contains the non-specific ingredient "flavor" [read more]
Contains low calorie sweeteners: Stevia Extract [read more]
Contains a high level of saturated fat [read more]
Contains 37% 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
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
CHERRY FLAVORED WATER BEVERAGE WITH OTHER NATURAL FLAVOR FILTERED WATER, SUGAR, CITRIC ACID, STEVIA LEAF EXTRACT, NATURAL FLAVOR. LIGHT BOLOGNA - MADE WITH CHICKEN AND PORK-MECHANICALLY SEPARATED CHICKEN, WATER, PORK, CORN SYRUP, MODIFIED FOOD STARCH, CONTAINS LESS THAN 2% OF SALT, POTASSIUM CHLORIDE, SODIUM PHOSPHATES, SODIUM PROPIONATE, SODIUM DIACETATE, SODIUM BENZOATE, SODIUM ASCORBATE, FLAVOR, SODIUM NITRITE, EXTRACTIVES OF PAPRIKA, OLEORESIN CELERY SEED. †EXCEEDS AMOUNT PERMITTED IN REGULAR BOLOGNA. PASTEURIZED PREPARED AMERICAN CHEESE PRODUCT - MILK, WATER, MILK PROTEIN CONCENTRATE, WHEY, MILKFAT, WHEY PROTEIN CONCENTRATE, SODIUM CITRATE, SALT, LACTIC ACID, SORBIC ACID AS A PRESERVATIVE, CHEESE CULTURE, ENZYMES, OLEORESIN PAPRIKA (COLOR), ANNATTO EXTRACT (COLOR), WITH SUNFLOWER LECITHIN ADDED FOR SLICE SEPARATION. CRACKERS- ENRICHED FLOUR (WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID), PALM OIL, SUGAR, SALT, BAKING SODA, WHEY (FROM MILK), SOY LECITHIN, NATURAL FLAVOR. STRAWBERRY FLAVOR CANDY WITH OTHER NATURAL FLAVORS - DEXTROSE, SUGAR, MALIC ACID, AND LESS THAN 2% OF CORN SYRUP, NATURAL FLAVORS, CARNAUBA WAX, COLOR ADDED, RED 40 LAKE.
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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 Syrup, Sugars, Dextrose, Modified Food Starch, Lecithin (Soy), Lactic Acid, Citric Acid, and Sodium Citrates [read more]
Environmental Impact: Contains pork, which has a higher carbon footprint relative to chicken, eggs and plant proteins.
Contains ingredients derived from wheat and milk - these are considered major food allergens according to the FDA [read more]
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