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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 [read more]
EWG calculates that this product is 37% sugar by weight and contains 4 teaspoons of added and natural sugar per serving [read more]
Contains a high level of saturated fat [read more]
Contains 1 added fiber ingredient(s): Cellulose Microcrystalline [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]
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 (Sweetened) (Fat Free), Dried Milk (Fat Free), Cream, and Butter [read more]
This product has 8 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 ingredients known to be a source of unhealthy artificial trans fats: Shortening [read more]
EWG calculates that this product is 37% 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 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
Includes ingredient(s) derived from animals that were possibly treated with antibiotics and/or growth promoters: Milk (Sweetened) (Fat Free), Dried Milk (Fat Free), Cream, and Butter [read more]
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SUGAR, BLEACHED ENRICHED WHEAT FLOUR (WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID), SOYBEAN OIL, ICING SUGAR (SUGAR, CORNSTARCH), SHORTENING (CANOLA, PALM, FRACTIONATED PALM AND PALM KERNEL OILS, MONOGLYCERIDES, POLYSORBATE 60), CORN SYRUP, WATER, EGG WHITES, CHOCOLATE (SUGAR, CHOCOLATE LIQUOR, COCOA BUTTER, SOYBEAN LECITHIN, VANILLA EXTRACT), COCOA POWDER (PROCESSED WITH ALKALI), CARAMEL FILLING (SWEETENED CONDENSED NONFAT MILK [CONDENSED NONFAT MILK, SUGAR], SUGAR, WATER, CORN SYRUP, NONFAT DRY MILK, CANOLA OIL, SODIUM ALGINATE, SALT, MICROCRYSTALLINE CELLULOSE, CARBOXYMETHYLCELLULOSE, MONOGLYCERIDES, SODIUM PHOSPHATE, POTASSIUM SORBATE [PRESERVATIVE], SOYBEAN LECITHIN, SODIUM BICARBONATE), CHOCOLATE FLAVORED FILLING (WATER, SUGAR, CORN SYRUP, MODIFIED CORNSTARCH, COCOA POWDER (PROCESSED WITH ALKALI), COLOR [CARAMEL, TITANIUM DIOXIDE), SODIUM ACID SULPHATE, SALT, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, POTASSIUM SORBATE [PRESERVATIVE], AGAR- AGAR), SOYBEAN BUTTER (TOASTED SOYBEAN, SOYBEAN OIL, SUGAR, MONOGLYCERIDES, SEA SALT), CHOCOLATE LIQUOR, BUTTER (CREAM, SALT), CHOCOLATE FLAVORED COATING (SUGAR, FRACTIONATED PALM AND/OR FRACTIONATED PALM KERNEL FAT, COCOA POWDER [PROCESSED WITH ALKALI], SOYBEAN LECITHIN, VANILLA EXTRACT), NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, SALT, NONFAT DRY MILK, MONO- AND DIGLYCERIDES, WHEY (MILK), MODIFIED CORNSTARCH, LEAVENING BLEND (SODIUM ACID PYROPHOSPHATE, SODIUM BICARBONATE, CORN STARCH, MONOCALCIUM PHOSPHATE, CALCIUM SULFATE), CHOCOLATE COATED CEREAL SPRINKLES (CRIPSY CEREAL [RICE FLOUR, SUGAR, SALT, COCOA BUTTER], CHOCOLATE [COCOA MASS, SUGAR, COCOA BUTTER, MILK FAT, SOYBEAN LECITHIN, NATURAL FLAVOR], MILK CHOCOLATE [SUGAR, COCOA BUTTER, WHOLE MILK, COCOA MASS, WHEY (MILK), SOYBEAN LECITHIN, SPICES NATURAL FLAVOR], WHITE CHOCOLATE [SUGAR, COCOA BUTTER, WHOLE MILK, WHEY (MILK), SOYBEAN LECITHIN, NATURAL FLAVOR], CORN SYRUP, SUGAR, GUM ARABIC, MODIFIED CORNSTARCH, COCONUT FAT), SOYBEAN LECITHIN, CARAMEL COLOR.
Products remain in the database for two years after their label information is recorded in stores. A product with label information last recorded more than a year ago is marked with an * identifying it as an older product.
Products remain in the Database for two years after their label information is recorded in stores, even when they have been discontinued (products may remain in stores and pantries long past the date they cease to be manufactured). EWG marks a product it is aware has been discontinued with a banner identifying it as such.
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This product contains the following ingredient(s) that may be genetically engineered or derived from GE crops: Corn Starch, Shortening, Corn Syrup, Canola Oil, Sugars, Soy Bean Oil, Soybean, Modified Starch (Corn), Icing Sugar, Mono And Diglycerides Of Fatty Acids, Lecithin (Soy), and Canola [read more]
Contains ingredients derived from wheat, milk, soybean or tree nut - these are considered major food allergens according to the FDA [read more]
8.0 servings per container
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