Betty Crocker Super Moist Lemon Cake Mix
General Mills Sales Inc. · Baking/Cooking Mixes/Supplies · barcode 00016000409941
What stands out
- From the label
The ingredients list Yellow No. 5 (tartrazine), which has 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.
- Additives1 ingredient has stricter rules elsewhere. Strictest: West Virginia ban from 2028; EU warning label. 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 2023-03-16). 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.
Yellow No. 5 (tartrazine) (E102)
- US (FDA): Allowed FDA allows Yellow No. 5 as a certified color additive. Source
- EU: Allowed with warning label Allowed as E102, 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
- 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
- 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
Bleached flour
- US (FDA): Allowed FDA allows bleached flour. 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 (1/10 package, 43 g, from the label):7% of a toddler's daily limit2% of an 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 sample, average 164, highest 164 ppb (2020)
- Lead in Flour, white, all-purpose: found in 1 of 3 samples, average 1.63, highest 4.9 ppb (2018-2020)
- Lead in Pie crust: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 4 ppb (2018-2020)
- Cadmium in Baking powder: found in 1 of 1 sample, average 20, highest 20 ppb (2020)
- Cadmium in Flour, white, all-purpose: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 42.3, highest 45 ppb (2018-2020)
- Cadmium in Pie crust: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 8.63, highest 9.7 ppb (2018-2020)
- Mercury in Baking powder: found in 1 of 1 sample, average 120, highest 120 ppb (2020)
- Mercury in Flour, white, all-purpose: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Mercury in Pie crust: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Baking powder: found in 1 of 1 sample, average 77, highest 77 ppb (2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Flour, white, all-purpose: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 3.53, highest 3.6 ppb (2018-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Pie crust: found in 0 of 3 samples, 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)
Enriched Flour Bleached (wheat flour, niacin, iron, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), Sugar, Corn Syrup, Leavening (baking soda, sodium aluminum phosphate, monocalcium phosphate). Contains 2% or less of: Modified Corn Starch, Palm Oil, Corn Starch, Propylene Glycol Mono and Diesters of Fatty Acids, Salt, Distilled Monoglycerides, Dicalcium Phosphate, Maltodextrin, Sodium Stearoyl Lactylate, Xanthan Gum, Cellulose Gum, Wheat Starch, Artificial Flavor, Citric Acid, Yellow 5 and Other Color Added. Freshness Preserved by Alpha Tocopherol.
From USDA FoodData Central, label dated 2023-03-16. Labels change; check the package.