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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 40% sugar by weight and contains 14 teaspoons of added and natural sugar per serving [read more]
Contains a high level of saturated fat [read more]
Contains 27% 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 6 of EWG's top food additives of concern: RED 40, TITANIUM DIOXIDE, RED 3, BLUE 1, YELLOW 5, and YELLOW 6
Contains synthetic food dyes [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) and Egg [read more]
This product has 19 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 higher concern
Contains 6 of EWG's top food additives of concern: RED 40, TITANIUM DIOXIDE, RED 3, BLUE 1, YELLOW 5, and YELLOW 6
Contains ingredients known to be a source of unhealthy artificial trans fats: Vegetable Shortening [read more]
EWG calculates that this product is 40% sugar by weight and contains 14 teaspoons of added and natural sugar per serving [read more]
Contains synthetic food dyes [read more]
Contains the non-specific ingredient "flavor" [read more]
Contains a high level of saturated fat [read more]
Contains 27% of the Institute of Medicine's daily sodium (salt) recommendations based on adequate intake [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) and Egg [read more]
Natural vs. Artificial Flavors
EWG's Good Food On A Tight Budget
EWG's 2014 Shopper's Guide to Avoiding GE Food
BUTTERCREAM BASE (SUGAR, VEGETABLE SHORTENING (PALM OIL, CANOLA OIL, MONO- AND DIGLYCERIDES, POLYSORBATE 60), CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF EACH OF THE FOLLOWING NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVORS, SALT, CORNSTARCH, ARTIFICIAL COLOR, QUAR GUM, LOCUST BEAN GUM), WATER, WHITE CAKE MIX (SUGAR, ENRICHED WHEAT FLOUR BLEACHED (FLOUR, NIACIN, IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID), PALM OIL, EGG WHITES, EGG YOLKS, CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF: CELLULOSE GUM, EGGS, FOOD STARCH-MODIFIED, GUAR GUM, LEAVENING (BAKING SODA, MONOCALCIUM PHOSPHATE, SODIUM ALUMINUM PHOSPHATE), MONO- AND DIGLYCERIDES, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, NONFAT MILK, POLYSORBATE 60, PRESERVATIVE (CALCIUM ACETATE), PROPYLENE GLYCOL MONO- AND DIESTERS OF FATTY ACIDS, SALT, SODIUM STEAROYL LACTYLATE, SORBITAN MONOSTEARATE, SOY LECITHIN, SOY BEAN OIL, TETRASODIUM PYROPHOSPHATE, XANTHAN GUM), WHITE MIRROR GLAZE (GLUCOSE SYRUP, SUGAR, WATER, COCOA BUTTER, LACTOSE (FROM MILK), CONCENTRATED BUTTER, MILK PROTEIN, THICKENING AGENTS (AMIDATED PECTIN, CARRAGEENAN, TRICALCIUM PHOSPHATE), ACIDITY REGULATOR (LACTIC ACID), PRESERVATIVE (POTASSIUM SORBATE), EMULSIFIER (MONO-AND DIGLYCERIDES OF FATTY ACIDS), COLOR (TITANIUM DIOXIDE), FLAVORINGS), CUSTARD MIX (SUGAR, DEXTROSE, FOOD STARCH-MODIFIED, NONFAT MILK, PALM OIL, CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF: ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, CARRAGEENAN CORN SYRUP SOLIDS, DIPOTASSIUM PHOSPHATE, DISODIUM PHOSPHATE, MONOAND DIGLYCERIDES, SALT, SODIUM ACID PYROPHOSPHATE, SODIUM CASEINATE, TITANIUM DIOXIDE (COLOR, YELLOW 5, YELLOW 6), CANOLA OIL, RAINBOW GRAFFITI (WHITE CHOCOLATE CRISPIES (SUGAR, RICE CEREAL (RICE FLOUR, CORN FLOUR, SUGAR, MALT EXTRACT, SALT, OAT FLOUR, CALCIUM CARBONATE AND SOY LECITHIN), PALM KERNEL FAT, MALTODEXTRIN, DRIED GLUCOSE SYRUP, SORBITAN TRISTEARATE, SOY LECITHIN, GUM ARABIC AND GLYCERIN), RAINBOW CRISPIES (SUGAR, RICE CEREAL [RICE FLOUR, CORN FLOUR, SUGAR, MALT EXTRACT, SALT, OAT FLOUR, CALCIUM CARBONATE AND SOY LECITHIN), PALM KERNEL FAT, MALTODEXTRIN, TAPIOCASTARCH, DRIED GLUCOSE SYRUP, TITANIUM DIOXIDE, SORBITAN TRIS TEARATE, SOY LECITHIN, GUM ARABIC, GLYCERIN, ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR AND FD&C YELLOW #5, FD&C YELLOW #6, FD&C RED #3, FD&C BLUE #1 AND FD&C RED #40), RAINBOW NONPAREILS (SUGAR, DEXTRIN, TAPIOCASTARCH, DRIED GLUCOSE SYRUP, FD&C YELLOW #5, FD&C YELLOW #6, FD&C RED #40, FD&C BLUE #1, FD&C RED #3, GLYCERIN, CUM ARABIC AND CARNAUBA WAX), STAR SHAPES (SUGAR, RICE FLOUR, PALM OIL, GLYCERIN, CORNSTARCH, TAPIOCASTARCH, DRIED GLUCOSE SYRUP, GUM ARABIC, XANTHAN GUM, CELLULOSE GUM, ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, FD&C YELLOW #5, FD&C YELLOW #6, FD&C BLUE #1, FD&C RED #3 AND FD&C RED #40), RAINBOW SPRINKLES (SUGAR, CORNSTARCH, TAPIOCA STARCH, DRIED GLUCOSE SYRUP, PALM OIL, GLYCERIN, SOY LECITHIN, GUM ARABIC, FD&C RED # 40, FD&C RED #3, FD&C BLUE #1, FD&C YELLOW #5, FD&C YELLOW #6, ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR AND CARNAUBA WAX)} ARTIFICIAL BLUE COLOR (WATER, PROPYLENE GLYCOL, FD&C BLUE #1}
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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, Corn Syrup Solids, Glucose Syrup (Dried), Canola Oil, Sugars, Dextrose, Glucose Syrup, Vegetable Shortening, Maltodextrin, Modified Food Starch, Xanthan Gum, Mono And Diglycerides Of Fatty Acids, and Lecithin (Soy) [read more]
Environmental Impact: Contains eggs, which have a lower carbon footprint than meat.
Contains ingredients derived from wheat, milk or egg - these are considered major food allergens according to the FDA [read more]
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