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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: Distilled Monoglycerides, Palm Oil, and Mono And Diglycerides Of Fatty Acids [read more]
EWG calculates that this product is 35% sugar by weight and contains 10 teaspoons of added and natural sugar per serving [read more]
Contains 25% 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]
No ingredient concerns identified for this product [read more]
Contains 6 of EWG's top food additives of concern: RED 40, RED 3, BLUE 1, BHT, BHA, 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]
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]
No ingredient concerns identified for this product [read more]
Contains food additives of higher concern
Contains 6 of EWG's top food additives of concern: RED 40, RED 3, BLUE 1, BHT, BHA, 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 that may contribute small amounts of unhealthy artificial trans fats: Distilled Monoglycerides, Palm Oil, and Mono And Diglycerides Of Fatty Acids [read more]
EWG calculates that this product is 35% sugar by weight and contains 10 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 25% 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
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CAKE (SUGAR, ENRICHED WHEAT FLOUR BLEACHED [FLOUR, NIACIN, IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID], FOOD STARCH-MODIFIED, SOYBEAN OIL, WHEY, CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF: ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, EGGS, LEAVENING [BAKING SODA, SODIUM ALUMINUM PHOSPHATE], MONO & DIGLYCERIDES, PROPYLENE GLYCOL, MONO-AND DIESTERS OF FATTY ACIDS, SALT, SODIUM STERROYL LACTYLATE, SOY FLOUR, VITAL WHEAT GLUTEN), EGG, SOYBEAN OIL (REFINED BLEACHED & DEODORIZED SOYBEAN OIL), WATER, WHITE ICING (SUGAR, WATER, CORN SYRUP, PALM OIL, CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF: AGAR-AGAR, CAROB BEAN GUM, GLUCONO DELTALACTONE, MONO- AND DIGLYCERIDES, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR [MILK], PRESERVATIVES [POTASSIUM SORBATE, SODIUM PROPIONATE, SORBIC ACID], SALT, TITANIUM DIOXIDE [COLOR]), TOPPING (SUGAR, ALL PURPOSE FLOUR [WHEAT FLOUR], SOYBEAN OIL, PALM OIL, AND KERNEL OIL, WATER, SALT, WHEY, MILK, DISTILLED MONOGLYCERIDES, SOY LECITHIN, POTASSIUM SORBATE AND CALCIUM DISODIUM EDTA [USED TO PROTECT QUALITY], CITRIC ACID, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVORS, VITAMIN A PALMITATE, BETA CAROTENE [COLOR], GELATIN, WATER, PROPYLENE GLYCOL, TRIACETIN, ETHYL ALCOHOL, BEET JUICE EXTRACT, XANTHAN GUM, FD&C RED 40, FD&C BLUE 1, VEGETABLE OIL, BHA, BHT [PRESERVATIVES], SALT), SUGAR, WATER, CORN SYRUP, CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF: AGAR-AGAR, ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, CAROB BEAN GUM, CITRIC ACID, CORNSTARCH, MONO- AND DIGLYCERIDES, PALM OIL, PRESERVATIVE (POTASSIUM SORBATE), TITANIUM DIOXIDE (COLOR), CREAM CHEESE (PASTEURIZED CULTURED SKIM MILKAND CREAM, WHEY, SALT, STABILIZERS [XANTHAN, LOCUST BEAN, AND GUAR GUMS]), BUTTER VANILLA POWDER (NATURAL & ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR IN DEXTROSE, SILICA, AND PROPYLENE GLYCOL), STRAWBERRY FLAVOR (PROPYLENE GLYCOL, WATER, STRAWBERRY ESSENCE, STRAWBERRY JUICE CONCENTRATE, CHERRY DARK SWEET CONCENTRATE, BLUEBERRY JUICE CONCENTRATE, BLACKBERRY JUICE CONCENTRATE, RASPBERRY JUICE CONCENTRATE, NATURAL FLAVORS), CHRISTMAS RED (WATER, HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP, GLYCERINE, FD&C RED 40 (E129), SUGAR, MODIFIED FOOD STARCH, FD&C RED 3 (E127), FD&C YELLOW 5 (E102), SODIUM BENZOATE AND POTASSIUM SORBATE (PRESERVATIVES), CARRAGEENAN GUM, XANTHAN GUM, CITRIC ACID).
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This product contains the following ingredient(s) that may be genetically engineered or derived from GE crops: Corn Starch, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Corn Syrup, Sugars, Dextrose, Soy Flour, Vegetable Oil, Oil, Modified Food Starch, Xanthan Gum, Mono And Diglycerides Of Fatty Acids, Lecithin (Soy), and Citric Acid [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]
1.0 servings per container
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