Private Selection Salted Caramel Chocolate Almond Pie, Salted Caramel Chocolate Almond
The Kroger Co. · Cakes, Cupcakes, Snack Cakes · barcode 00011110071651
What stands out
- From the label
The ingredients list Partially hydrogenated oils, Yellow No. 6 (Sunset Yellow), Yellow No. 5 (tartrazine), Blue No. 1 (Brilliant Blue) and Red No. 40 (Allura Red), which have stricter rules elsewhere. Strictest: No longer allowed by FDA; EU warning label. Details
- Lab testsNo lab has published results for this exact product.
- RecallsNo FDA recall lists this barcode.
- Additives5 ingredients have stricter rules elsewhere. Strictest: No longer allowed by FDA; EU warning label. Which
- TypicalFDA's tests of cakes, cupcakes, snack cakes show what's typical. See levels
Additives with restrictions somewhere
From the ingredient list on file (label data dated 2021-12-01). Recipes change, so check the package you have.
Rules that apply to more than one of these
- Texas: Warning label required from 2027-01-01 Labels developed on or after January 1, 2027 must warn that the product contains an ingredient not recommended for consumption in Australia, Canada, the EU or the UK. (SB 25 (2025)) Source. Applies to all of them.
- Louisiana: Warning label required from 2028-01-01 Products containing it must carry a QR code disclosure from January 1, 2028. (SB 14, Act 463 (2025)) Source. Applies to all of them.
- US (FDA): Allowed Source. Applies to Yellow No. 6 (Sunset Yellow), Yellow No. 5 (tartrazine), Blue No. 1 (Brilliant Blue), Red No. 40 (Allura Red).
- EU: Allowed with warning label (Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008, Annex V) Source. Applies to Yellow No. 6 (Sunset Yellow), Yellow No. 5 (tartrazine), Red No. 40 (Allura Red).
- California: Banned in school meals from 2027-12-31 Banned in food and drinks offered in California public schools from December 31, 2027. (AB 2316 (2024)) Source. Applies to Yellow No. 6 (Sunset Yellow), Yellow No. 5 (tartrazine), Blue No. 1 (Brilliant Blue), Red No. 40 (Allura Red).
- West Virginia: Banned from 2028-01-01 Food containing it is treated as adulterated in West Virginia from January 1, 2028. (HB 2354 (2025)) Source. Applies to Yellow No. 6 (Sunset Yellow), Yellow No. 5 (tartrazine), Blue No. 1 (Brilliant Blue), Red No. 40 (Allura Red).
- West Virginia: Banned in school meals from 2025-08-01 Banned in West Virginia school meals since August 1, 2025. (HB 2354 (2025)) Source. Applies to Yellow No. 6 (Sunset Yellow), Yellow No. 5 (tartrazine), Blue No. 1 (Brilliant Blue), Red No. 40 (Allura Red).
- Louisiana: Banned in school meals from 2028-2029 school year Banned in Louisiana school food from the 2028-2029 school year (concession stands and vending machines exempt). (SB 14, Act 463 (2025)) Source. Applies to Yellow No. 6 (Sunset Yellow), Yellow No. 5 (tartrazine), Blue No. 1 (Brilliant Blue), Red No. 40 (Allura Red).
Partially hydrogenated oils
- US (FDA): Authorization revoked FDA determined in 2015 that they are no longer generally recognized as safe; makers had to remove them, with final compliance dates in 2018-2020. Labels on file may predate that. (80 FR 34650 (2015)) Source
Yellow No. 6 (Sunset Yellow) (E110)
Only the shared rules above.
Yellow No. 5 (tartrazine) (E102)
Only the shared rules above.
Blue No. 1 (Brilliant Blue) (E133)
- EU: Allowed On the EU's list of approved additives as E133. (Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008) Source
Red No. 40 (Allura Red) (E129)
Only the shared rules above.
Typical for cakes, cupcakes, snack cakes
What FDA found when it bought and tested this kind of food across the US. These are not tests of this product.
- Lead: typically 3.9 ppb (FDA, 54 samples, 2017-2020).
A toddler reaches FDA's daily limit at about 380 g (13 oz) a day; an adult at about 1.5 kg (3.3 lb).One serving (0.125 pie, 120 g, from the label):31% of a toddler's daily limit8% of an adult's daily limit
- Cadmium: typically 9.7 ppb (FDA, 54 samples, 2017-2020).
A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 1.4 kg (3.1 lb) a day; an adult at about 6.4 kg (14 lb).One serving (0.125 pie, 120 g, from the label):9% of a toddler's daily limit2% of an adult's daily limit
- Arsenic (total): typically 1.9 ppb (FDA, 54 samples, 2017-2020). No US agency limit we can cite.
- Perchlorate: typically 1.5 ppb (FDA, 40 samples, 2008-2012).
A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 4.5 kg (9.9 lb) a day; an adult at about 21 kg (46 lb).One serving (0.125 pie, 120 g, from the label):3% of a toddler's daily limitunder 1% of an adult's daily limit
- Mercury: usually below 1 ppb, the lab's limit, in FDA's samples.
FDA samples behind these numbers
- Lead in Cake, chocolate with chocolate icing: found in 27 of 27 samples, average 8.92, highest 16 ppb (2017-2020)
- Lead in Cake, white with white icing: found in 9 of 27 samples, average 2.56, highest 17 ppb (2017-2020)
- Cadmium in Cake, chocolate with chocolate icing: found in 27 of 27 samples, average 17.6, highest 40 ppb (2017-2020)
- Cadmium in Cake, white with white icing: found in 27 of 27 samples, average 4.13, highest 6.4 ppb (2017-2020)
- Mercury in Cake, chocolate with chocolate icing: found in 9 of 27 samples, average 0.45, highest 1.9 ppb (2017-2020)
- Mercury in Cake, white with white icing: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Cake, chocolate with chocolate icing: found in 25 of 27 samples, average 3.6, highest 4.6 ppb (2017-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Cake, white with white icing: found in 10 of 27 samples, average 1.72, highest 7.4 ppb (2017-2020)
- Perchlorate in Cake, chocolate w/ icing: found in 12 of 20 samples, average 2.76, highest 14 ppb (2008-2012)
- Perchlorate in Cake, white w/ icing (formerly yellow cake): found in 12 of 20 samples, average 1.88, highest 9 ppb (2008-2012)
"Typically" is FDA's middle sample. Daily amounts use the long-run average and each chemical's daily limit (EPA reference dose, or FDA's level for lead) for a 33-lb toddler and a 154-lb adult. ppb = micrograms per kilogram of food. Source: FDA Total Diet Study.
Not tested
No published results for this product cover: Metals, Perchlorate, Phthalates (plastic softeners), Phthalate substitutes, Bisphenols. That means nobody has published a test, not that these are absent.
Ingredients (from the label)
WHIPPED TOPPING (WATER, NON-HYDROGENATED PALM KERNEL OIL, SUGAR, NON-HYDROGENATED COCONUT OIL, SODIUM CASEINATE, NATURAL FLAVOR, POLYSORBATE 60, SORBITAN MONOSTEARATE, XANTHAN GUM, GUAR GUM, BETA CAROTENE FOR COLOR), ENRICHED FLOUR (WHEAT FLOUR WITH NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMIN MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID), SUGAR, BUTTER (CREAM, SALT), CARAMEL TOPPING (CORN SYRUP, SWEETENED CONDENSED MILK [MILK, SUGAR, CORN SYRUP], CORN SYRUP SOLIDS, COCONUT OIL, BUTTER [CREAM, SALT], CORN STARCH, WATER, SALT, DISODIUM PHOSPHATE, NATURAL FLAVOR, PECTIN), EGGS, ALMONDS, VEGETABLE OIL (PALM, SOYBEAN), WATER, BROWN SUGAR, FUDGE BASE (ALKALIZED COCOA, SOYBEAN OIL, HYDROGENATED SOYBEAN OIL, PALM OIL, PALM KERNEL OIL, PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED SOYBEAN AND COTTONSEED OILS, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, SOY LECITHIN, NATURAL COCOA LIQUOR, MONO AND DIGLYCERIDES, POLYSORBATE 60), CHOCOLATE RIBBON (POWDERED SUGAR [SUGAR, CORN STARCH], PEANUT OIL, NATURAL COCOA, CHOCOLATE LIQUOR, SALT, SOY LECITHIN [EMULSIFIER]), CARAMEL RIBBON (SUGAR, CORN STARCH, PEANUT OIL, MALTODEXTRIN, PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED PALM KERNEL AND PALM OILS, NONFAT DRY MILK, COCOA, SOY LECITHIN [EMULSIFIER], SALT, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVORS, REDUCED MINERAL WHEY POWDER, WHOLE MILK POWDER, STABILIZER [MONO AND DIGLYCERIDES, HYDROGENATED SOYBEAN OIL, TOCOPHEROL, ASCORBIC ACID, CITRIC ACID AS ANTIOXIDANT], COLORS [YELLOW 6 LAKE, YELLOW 5 LAKE, BLUE 1 LAKE, RED 40 LAKE]), SALT, DEXTROSE, POWDERED SUGAR, AGAR, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, ANNATTO EXTRACT AND TURMERIC AS COLOR, NONFAT DRY MILK FORTIFIED WITH VITAMINS A AND D, CALCIUM PROPIONATE TO RETARD SPOILAGE.
From USDA FoodData Central, label dated 2021-12-01. Labels change; check the package.