Baking/Cooking Mixes/Supplies · barcode 00016000176195
Betty Crocker Rainbow Cookie Kit
Betty Crocker · General Mills Sales Inc.
- Lab testsNo lab has published results for this exact product.
- RecallsNo FDA recall lists this barcode.
- Additives2 ingredients are banned or unapproved somewhere. Which
- TypicalFDA's tests of baking/cooking mixes/supplies show what's typical. See levels
Additives with restrictions somewhere
From the ingredient list on file (label data dated 2024-08-15). Recipes change, so check the package you have.
Titanium dioxide (E171)
- US (FDA): Allowed FDA allows it as a color additive, up to 1% of the food's weight. Source
- EU: Removed from approved list from 2022-08-07 Removed as a food additive in 2022; food made under the old rules could be sold until August 7, 2022. (Regulation (EU) 2022/63) Source
- 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
Blue No. 1 (Brilliant Blue) (E133)
- US (FDA): Allowed FDA allows Blue No. 1 as a certified color additive. Source
- EU: Allowed On the EU's list of approved additives as E133. (Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008) Source
- 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
- 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
- West Virginia: Banned in school meals from 2025-08-01 Banned in West Virginia school meals since August 1, 2025. (HB 2354 (2025)) Source
- 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
- 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
- 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
Bleached flour
- US (FDA): Allowed FDA allows bleached flour. Source
- 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
- 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
Typical for baking/cooking mixes/supplies
FDA doesn't test this exact kind of food, so these are the closest foods it does test. Treat them as a rough guide.
- Cadmium: typically 25.2 ppb (FDA, 7 samples, 2018-2020).
A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 610 g (22 oz) a day; an adult at about 2.8 kg (6.2 lb).One serving (1 teaspoon):under 1% of a toddler's daily limitunder 1% of a adult's daily limit
- Arsenic (total): typically 12.5 ppb (FDA, 7 samples, 2018-2020). No US agency limit we can cite.
- Lead, Mercury: usually below 4 ppb, the lab's limit, in FDA's samples.
FDA samples behind these numbers
- Lead in Baking powder: found in 1 of 1, average 164, highest 164 ppb (2020)
- Lead in Flour, white, all-purpose: found in 1 of 3, average 1.63, highest 4.9 ppb (2018-2020)
- Lead in Pie crust: found in 0 of 3, all below 4 ppb (2018-2020)
- Cadmium in Baking powder: found in 1 of 1, average 20, highest 20 ppb (2020)
- Cadmium in Flour, white, all-purpose: found in 3 of 3, average 42.3, highest 45 ppb (2018-2020)
- Cadmium in Pie crust: found in 3 of 3, average 8.63, highest 9.7 ppb (2018-2020)
- Mercury in Baking powder: found in 1 of 1, average 120, highest 120 ppb (2020)
- Mercury in Flour, white, all-purpose: found in 0 of 3, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Mercury in Pie crust: found in 0 of 3, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Baking powder: found in 1 of 1, average 77, highest 77 ppb (2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Flour, white, all-purpose: found in 3 of 3, average 3.53, highest 3.6 ppb (2018-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Pie crust: found in 0 of 3, all below 3 ppb (2018-2020)
"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)
Sugar, Enriched Flour Bleached (wheat flour, niacin, iron, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), Vegetable Oil (palm, palm kernel, coconut, canola), Corn Starch, Water, Corn Syrup. Contains 2% or less of: Nonfat Milk, Wheat Protein Isolate, Leavening (baking soda, sodium aluminum phosphate), Salt, Mono and Diglycerides, Rice Flour, Dextrin, Polysorbate 60, Natural and Artificial Flavor, Soy Lecithin, Gum Arabic, Potassium Sorbate (preservative), Color (titanium dioxide, yellow lakes 5 & 6, red lake 40, mica-based pearlescent color, reds 3 & 40, blue 1, blue 1 lake, yellows 5 & 6), Xanthan Gum, Tapioca Starch, Tapioca Syrup, Carnauba Wax, Shellac, Sodium Stearoyl Lactylate, Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate, Citric Acid.
From USDA FoodData Central, label dated 2024-08-15. Labels change; check the package.