Kroger Frozen Concentrated Juice Cocktail, Grape, Grape
The Kroger Co. · Frozen Fruit & Fruit Juice Concentrates · barcode 00011110877772
What stands out
- From the label
The ingredients list Red No. 40 (Allura Red) and Blue No. 1 (Brilliant Blue), which have stricter rules elsewhere. Strictest: West Virginia ban from 2028; EU warning label. Details
- Lab testsNo lab has published results for this exact product.
- RecallsNo FDA recall lists this barcode.
- Additives2 ingredients have stricter rules elsewhere. Strictest: West Virginia ban from 2028; EU warning label. Which
- TypicalFDA's tests of frozen fruit & fruit juice concentrates show what's typical. See levels
Additives with restrictions somewhere
From the ingredient list on file (label data dated 2021-07-29). Recipes change, so check the package you have.
Rules that apply to more than one of these
- US (FDA): Allowed Source. Applies to all of them.
- 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 all of them.
- 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 all of them.
- 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 all of them.
- 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: 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 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.
Red No. 40 (Allura Red) (E129)
- EU: Allowed with warning label Allowed as E129, but foods containing it must say it "may have an adverse effect on activity and attention in children." (Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008, Annex V) Source
Blue No. 1 (Brilliant Blue) (E133)
- EU: Allowed On the EU's list of approved additives as E133. (Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008) Source
Typical for frozen fruit & fruit juice concentrates
What FDA found when it bought and tested this kind of food across the US. These are not tests of this product.
- Cadmium: typically 2.8 ppb (FDA, 87 samples, 2017-2020).
A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 4.2 kg (9.3 lb) a day; an adult at about 20 kg (44 lb).One serving (1/4 cup, 73 g, from the label):2% of a toddler's daily limitunder 1% of an adult's daily limit
- Lead, Mercury, Arsenic (total): usually below 4 ppb, the lab's limit, in FDA's samples.
FDA samples behind these numbers
- Lead in Mango, raw/frozen: found in 0 of 6 samples, all below 4 ppb (2019-2020)
- Lead in Peach, raw/frozen: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 4 ppb (2017-2020)
- Lead in Pineapple, raw/frozen: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 4 ppb (2017-2020)
- Lead in Strawberry, raw/frozen: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 4 ppb (2017-2020)
- Cadmium in Mango, raw/frozen: found in 5 of 6 samples, average 2.5, highest 6 ppb (2019-2020)
- Cadmium in Peach, raw/frozen: found in 10 of 27 samples, average 0.64, highest 3.4 ppb (2017-2020)
- Cadmium in Pineapple, raw/frozen: found in 2 of 27 samples, average 1, highest 26 ppb (2017-2020)
- Cadmium in Strawberry, raw/frozen: found in 27 of 27 samples, average 9.26, highest 34 ppb (2017-2020)
- Mercury in Mango, raw/frozen: found in 0 of 6 samples, all below 1 ppb (2019-2020)
- Mercury in Peach, raw/frozen: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
- Mercury in Pineapple, raw/frozen: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
- Mercury in Strawberry, raw/frozen: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Mango, raw/frozen: found in 3 of 6 samples, average 2.42, highest 5.4 ppb (2019-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Peach, raw/frozen: found in 17 of 27 samples, average 3.64, highest 12 ppb (2017-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Pineapple, raw/frozen: found in 1 of 27 samples, average 0.16, highest 4.4 ppb (2017-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Strawberry, raw/frozen: found in 16 of 27 samples, average 2.78, highest 8.3 ppb (2017-2020)
- Perchlorate in Peach, raw/frozen: found in 6 of 20 samples, average 0.77, highest 9 ppb (2008-2012)
- Perchlorate in Strawberries, raw/frozen: found in 10 of 20 samples, average 2.23, highest 20 ppb (2008-2012)
Left out of the summary above: Perchlorate. FDA measured it in only some of these foods, so the result describes those foods, not the whole kind.
"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)
HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP, WATER, CONCENTRATED GRAPE JUICE, CITRIC ACID (FOR TARTNESS), NATURAL FLAVORS, SUGAR SYRUP, ASCORBIC ACID (VITAMIN C), RED #40, BLUE #1.
From USDA FoodData Central, label dated 2021-07-29. Labels change; check the package.