Sunbelt Bakery Blueberry Flavored Sweet Fruit Filling Soft Baked Bars, Blueberry
McKee Foods Corporation · Snack, Energy & Granola Bars · barcode 00024300031717
What stands out
- From the label
The ingredients list Titanium dioxide, which has stricter rules elsewhere. Strictest: Not allowed in the EU since 2022. Details
- Lab testsNo lab has published results for this exact product.
- RecallsNo FDA recall lists this barcode.
- Additives1 ingredient has stricter rules elsewhere. Strictest: Not allowed in the EU since 2022. Which
- TypicalFDA's tests of snack, energy & granola bars show what's typical. See levels
Additives with restrictions somewhere
From the ingredient list on file (label data dated 2023-11-16). 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
Typical for snack, energy & granola bars
What FDA found when it bought and tested this kind of food across the US. These are not tests of this product.
- Cadmium: typically 7.4 ppb (FDA, 3 samples, 2018-2020).
A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 1.8 kg (4 lb) a day; an adult at about 8.3 kg (18 lb).One serving (1 bar, 39 g, from the label):2% of a toddler's daily limitunder 1% of an adult's daily limit
- Arsenic (total): typically 20 ppb (FDA, 3 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 Granola bar: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 4 ppb (2018-2020)
- Cadmium in Granola bar: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 8.47, highest 11 ppb (2018-2020)
- Mercury in Granola bar: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Granola bar: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 21.7, highest 28 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)
CRUST: WHOLE WHEAT FLOUR, WATER, DEXTROSE, SUGAR, SOYBEAN OIL, CORN SYRUP, WHOLE GRAIN ROLLED OATS, RAISIN PASTE, PALM AND PALM KERNEL OIL. CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF EACH OF THE FOLLOWING: WHEAT GLUTEN, WHEY (MILK), MODIFIED CORN STARCH, DRIED EGGS, SALT, BAKING SODA, MONO- AND DIGLYCERIDES, CORN STARCH, TITANIUM DIOXIDE, SOY LECITHIN, VANILLIN, SOY FLOUR, POWDERED SUGAR (SUGAR, CORN STARCH). FILLING: CORN SYRUP, SUGAR, WATER, BLUEBERRY PUREE, APPLE FIBER, PECTIN, CORN STARCH, NATURAL FLAVOR, LEMON JUICE CONCENTRATE, BAKING SODA. VITAMIN/MINERALS: CALCIUM CARBONATE, VITAMIN A PALMITATE, THIAMIN MONONITRATE [VITAMIN B1], NIACINAMIDE [VITAMIN B3], FOLIC ACID, FERRIC ORTHOPHOSPHATE [IRON], RIBOFLAVIN [VITAMIN B2], PYRIDOXINE HYDROCHLORIDE [VITAMIN B6], CYANOCOBALAMIN [VITAMIN B12].
From USDA FoodData Central, label dated 2023-11-16. Labels change; check the package.