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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 43% sugar by weight and contains 14 teaspoons of added and natural sugar per serving [read more]
Contains 23% 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 3 of EWG's top food additives of concern: RED 40, BLUE 1, and Propyl - Gallate
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 moderate concern
Contains 3 of EWG's top food additives of concern: RED 40, BLUE 1, and Propyl - Gallate
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 43% 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 23% of the Institute of Medicine's daily sodium (salt) recommendations based on adequate intake [read more]
Product has been classified as having high processing concerns
Natural vs. Artificial Flavors
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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 FATIY ACIDS, SALT, SODIUM STEAROYL LACT YLATE, SORBITAN MONOSTEARATE, SOY LECITHIN, SOYBEAN OIL, TETRASODIUM PYROPHOSPHATE, XANTHAN GUM), GREAM CHEESE ICING (SUGAR, CREAM CHEESE [PASTEURIZED MILK AND CREAM, CHEESE CULTURE, SALT, STABILIZER [CAROB BEAN GUM, XANTHAN GUM, GUAR GUM)], VEGETABLE SHORT ENING [PALM OIL, CANOLA OIL, MONO-AND DIGLYCERIDES, POLYSORBATE 60], DEXTROSE, CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF EACH OF THE FOLLOWING: CREAM CHEESE POWDER [CREAM CHEESE SOLIDS [CREAM, NONFAT MILK, SALT, SODIUM ALGINATE, LACTIC ACID), CORN SYRUP SOLIDS, SODIUM CASEINATE, NATURAL FLAVOR], CORN STARCH, SOYBEAN OIL, SALT, NATURAL FLAVOR, BENZOIC ACID [PRESERVATIVE], POLYSORBATE 60, PROPYL GALLATE [ANTIOXIDANT], BETA CAROTENE [COLOR]), 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, CORN STARCH, ARTIFICIAL COLOR, GUAR GUM, LOCUST BEAN GUM), WATER, GLUCOSE SIRUP, SUGAR, WATER, RASPBERRY PUREE 3%, THICKENER: PECTIN, MODIFIED STARCH, PH CONTROL AGENTS: CITRIC ACID AND SODIUM CITRATE, STABILIZER: CALCIUM CHLORIDE, COLORS: CARMINE AND BETA-CAROTENE, ARTIFICIAL FLAVORS, PRESERVATIVE POTASSIUM SORBATE, RASPBERRY FILLING (SUGAR, RASPBERRY PUREE, WATER, CORN SYRUP, MODIFIED FOOD STARCH (CORN), CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF EACH OF THE FOLLOWING: GELLAN GUM, CITRIC ACID, POTASSIUM SORBATE (PRESERVATIVE), CALCIUM LACTATE, RED 40, BLUE 1). CHOCOLATE CAKE MIX (SUGAR, ENRICHED WHEAT FLOUR BLEACHED (FLOUR, NIACIN, IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID), COCOA PROCESSED WITH ALKALI, PALM OIL, EGG WHITES, SOYBEAN OIL, EGG YOLKS, LEAVENING (BAKING SODA, SODIUM ALUMINUM PHOSPHATE, MONOCALCIUM PHOSPHATE), CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF CARAMEL COLOR CELLULOSE GUM, DEFATTED SOY FLOUR, DEXTROSE, FOOD
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This product contains the following ingredient(s) that may be genetically engineered or derived from GE crops: Corn Starch, Corn Syrup Solids, Corn Syrup, Canola Oil, Sugars, Dextrose, Soy Flour, Glucose Syrup, Vegetable Shortening, Modified Food Starch, Xanthan Gum, Modified Starch (Corn), Mono And Diglycerides Of Fatty Acids, Lecithin (Soy), Lactic Acid, Citric Acid, and Sodium Citrates [read more]
Environmental Impact: Contains eggs, which have a lower carbon footprint than meat.
Contains ingredients derived from wheat, milk, soybean or egg - these are considered major food allergens according to the FDA [read more]
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