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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: Shortening and Vegetable Shortening (Palm) [read more]
EWG calculates that this product is 28% sugar by weight and contains 4 teaspoons of added and natural sugar per serving [read more]
Contains low calorie sweeteners: Sweeteners [read more]
Contains a high level of saturated fat [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 YELLOW 5
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]
Rice-based ingredients may contain arsenic [read more]
This product has 9 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 moderate concern
Contains 3 of EWG's top food additives of concern: RED 40, BLUE 1, and YELLOW 5
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: Shortening and Vegetable Shortening (Palm) [read more]
EWG calculates that this product is 28% sugar by weight and contains 4 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 low calorie sweeteners: Sweeteners [read more]
Contains a high level of saturated fat [read more]
Rice-based ingredients may contain arsenic [read more]
Product has been classified as having high processing concerns
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CAKE (SWEETENERS (SUGAR, DEXTROSE), WATER, ENRICHED WHEAT FLOUR (WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID), LIQUID WHOLE EGG, COCOA POWDER, PALM OIL SHORTENING (PALM OIL, SOYBEAN OIL, PROPYLENE GLYCOL MONOESTERS, MONO- AND DIGLYCERIDES, SOYBEAN LECITHIN), SOY OIL, WHEY POWDER, DRIED EGG WHITE, SALT, SOY FIBER, SOY LECITHIN, XANTHAN GUM, PROPYLENE GLYCOL MONO FATTY ACID ESTERS, MONO- AND DIGLYCERIDES, SODIUM ALUMINUM PHOSPHATE, ALUMINUM SULFATE, SODIUM BICARBONATE, SODIUM STEAROYL-2-LACTYLATE, SODIUM CARBOXYMETHYL CELLULOSE, FD&C RED #40), SYRUP (SUGAR, WATER, POTASSIUM SORBATE (PRESERVATIVE), CITRIC ACID (TO PRESERVE FRESHNESS)), MOUSSE (SWEETENERS (SUGAR, DEXTROSE, GLUCOSE, SWEETENED CONDENSED MILK (EVAPORATED MILK, LIQUID SUGAR, LACTOSE), ICING SUGAR (SUGAR, CORNSTARCH), MODIFIED PALM KERNEL AND COCONUT OIL, MILK (MILK, VITAMIN D3), DARK CHOCOLATE (SUGAR, UNSWEETENED CHOCOLATE, COCOA BUTTER, ANHYDROUS DEXTROSE, SOY LECITHIN, VANILLA EXTRACT), WATER, SHORTENING (PALM OIL, CANOLA OIL, MODIFIED PALM AND PALM KERNEL OILS), SALT, COCOA POWDER, RICE EXTRACT, SODIUM CASEINATE, SOY LECITHIN, GELATIN, GUM ARABIC, XANTHAN GUM, MODIFIED CELLULOSE, POLYSORBATE 60, POTASSIUM SORBATE (PRESERVATIVE), CITRIC ACID (TO PRESERVE FRESHNESS), NATURAL FLAVOR, BETA CAROTENE (COLOR), FD&C RED #40, FD&C BLUE #1, FD&C YELLOW #5), GANACHE (SWEETENERS (SUGAR, GLUCOSE), NON-HYDROGENATED OIL (PALM KERNEL OIL, PALM OIL), CREAM (CREAM, MILK, CELLULOSE GEL, CARRAGEENAN, CELLULOSE GUM), SUNFLOWER OIL, SKIM MILK POWDER, COCOA POWDER, SOY LECITHIN, SUNFLOWER LECITHIN, NATURAL FLAVOR), CHOCOLATE DECORATION (SUGAR, COCOA BUTTER, MILK POWDER, UNSWEETENED CHOCOLATE, WHEY POWDER, WHEAT FLOUR, WHEAT MALT FLOUR, WHEAT STARCH, GLUCOSE, MODIFIED CORN STARCH, COCONUT OIL. SALT. MODIFIED FOOD STARCH, CHOCOLATE LIQUOR, LACTOSE, BUTTER OIL. SOY LECITHIN, SPICES, GUM ARABIC, SODIUM BICARBONATE, NATURAL FLAVOR).
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This product contains the following ingredient(s) that may be genetically engineered or derived from GE crops: Corn Starch, Liquid Sugar, Shortening, Canola Oil, Sugars, Dextrose, Vegetable Oil, Soybean Fiber, Modified Food Starch, Xanthan Gum, Modified Starch (Corn), Icing Sugar, Mono And Diglycerides Of Fatty Acids, Lecithin (Soy), and Glucose [read more]
Environmental Impact: Contains eggs, which have a lower carbon footprint than meat.
Contains ingredients derived from wheat, milk, soybean or tree nut - these are considered major food allergens according to the FDA [read more]
12.0 servings per container
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