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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, Cottonseed, and Corn Oil [read more]
EWG calculates that this product is 50% sugar by weight and contains 4 teaspoons of added and natural sugar per serving [read more]
Contains low calorie sweeteners: Sorbitol [read more]
Contains a high level of saturated fat [read more]
Contains 1 added fiber ingredient(s): Corn 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.
This product is not certified organic [read more]
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]
This product has 3 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 lower concern
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 that may contribute small amounts of unhealthy artificial trans fats: Palm Oil, Cottonseed, and Corn Oil [read more]
EWG calculates that this product is 50% sugar by weight and contains 4 teaspoons of added and natural sugar per serving [read more]
Contains the non-specific ingredient "flavor" [read more]
Contains low calorie sweeteners: Sorbitol [read more]
Contains a high level of saturated fat [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
CHOCOLATE FLAVORED DRIZZLE CARAMEL CORN (CARAMEL CORN [CORN SYRUP, BROWN SUGAR, SUGAR, POPCORN, CORN OIL, BUTTER {CREAM, SALT}, MOLASSES, SALT, SOY LECITHIN {AN EMULSIFIER}, BETA CAROTENE {COLOR}], CONFECTIONERY COATING [SUGAR, VEGETABLE OIL {PALM KERNEL AND HYDROGENATED PALM}, COCOA {MAY BE PROCESSED WITH ALKALI}, SKIM MILK, WHEY, SOY LECITHIN, ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR]), COATED CEREAL (POWDERED SUGAR [SUGAR, CORNSTARCH], CORN BISCUITS [MILLED CORN, SUGAR, CORN BRAN, SALT, MOLASSES, BAKING SODA, MIXED TOCOPHEROLS {ADDED TO PRESERVE FRESHNESS}], CHOCOLATEY COATING [SUGAR, PALM KERNEL OIL, COCOA POWDER {PROCESSED WITH ALKALI}, NONFAT DRY MILK, WHEY POWDER, SOY LECITHIN, SALT, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR], PEANUT BUTTER [PEANUTS, SUGAR AND/OR DEXTROSE, HYDROGENATED VEGETABLE OILS {RAPESEED, COTTONSEED, SOYBEAN} AND/OR PALM OIL, SALT], WHEAT BISCUITS [WHOLE GRAIN WHEAT, SUGAR, SALT, MOLASSES, BAKING SODA, VITAMIN E MIXED TOCOPHEROLS {ADDED TO PRESERVE FRESHNESS}]), BUTTER TOFFEE PEANUTS (SUGAR, PEANUTS, SALTED BUTTER [SWEET CREAM, SALT], ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR [VANILLA POWDER], SALT, SOY LECITHIN), CHOCOLATE PEANUTS (CONFECTIONERY COATING [SUGAR, HYDROGENATED PALM KERNEL OIL, COCOA POWDER, WHEY POWDER, NONFAT MILK POWDER, SOY LECITHIN {AN EMULSIFIER}, VANILLA], MILK CHOCOLATE [SUGAR, COCOA BUTTER, CHOCOLATE LIQUOR, WHOLE MILK POWDER, SOY LECITHIN {AN EMULSIFIER}, SALT, VANILLA], ROASTED PEANUTS [PEANUTS, CORN OIL]), CHOCOLATE FLAVORED PEANUT BUTTER CUPS (SUGAR, HYDROGENATED VEGETABLE OIL [PALM KERNEL AND/OR PALM], GROUND PEANUTS, WHEY, LACTOSE, COCOA [PROCESSED WITH ALKALI], PEANUT FLOUR, SKIM MILK, SALT, SOY LECITHIN AND SORBITOL [EMULSIFIERS], VANILLIN [ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR]), PEANUT FLAVORED CHIPS (SUGAR, PALM KERNEL AND PALM OIL, PARTIALLY DEFATTED PEANUT FLOUR, NONFAT DRY MILK SOLIDS, PEANUTS, ANHYDROUS DEXTROSE, SOY LECITHIN [AN EMULSIFIER], SALT), CASHEWS, COTTONSEED OIL, PEANUT OIL, SALT.
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This product contains the following ingredient(s) that may be genetically engineered or derived from GE crops: Corn Starch, Corn Bran, Brown Sugar, Corn Syrup, Cottonseed, Sugars, Dextrose, Sorbitol, Vegetable Oil, Corn Oil, Corn, Confectionary Sugar, Soybean, and Lecithin (Soy) [read more]
Contains ingredients derived from peanut, milk, wheat or soybean - these are considered major food allergens according to the FDA [read more]
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