Cub Glazed Lemon Poppysd Creme Cake, Glazed Lemon Poppysd Creme

Jerry's Enterprises Inc. · Cakes, Cupcakes, Snack Cakes · barcode 00029341002580

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From the label
The ingredients list BHA (butylated hydroxyanisole) and Yellow No. 5 (tartrazine), 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 cakes, cupcakes, snack cakes show what's typical. See levels

Additives with restrictions somewhere

From the ingredient list on file (label data dated 2022-12-22). Recipes change, so check the package you have.

Rules that apply to more than one of these

US (FDA): Allowed Source. Applies to BHA (butylated hydroxyanisole), Bleached flour.
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 BHA (butylated hydroxyanisole), Yellow No. 5 (tartrazine).
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 BHA (butylated hydroxyanisole), Yellow No. 5 (tartrazine).
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.

BHA (butylated hydroxyanisole) (E320)

EU: Allowed On the EU's list of approved additives as E320. For limited uses. (Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008) Source

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 in school meals from 2025-08-01 Banned in West Virginia school meals since August 1, 2025. (HB 2354 (2025)) Source

Bleached flour

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 cake, 85 g, from the label):
22% of a toddler's daily limit
6% 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 cake, 85 g, from the label):
6% of a toddler's daily limit
1% 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 cake, 85 g, from the label):
2% of a toddler's daily limit
under 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)

SUGAR, BLEACHED ENRICHED FLOUR (WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID), SOYBEAN OIL MODIFIED FOOD STARCH (CORN), DEFATTED SOY FLOUR CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF EACH OF THE FOLLOWING: EMULSIFIER(PROPYLENE GLYCOL MONO AND DIESTERS OF FATS AND FATTY ACIDS, DISTILLED MONOGLYCERIDES, SODIUM STEAROYL LACTYEATE), SALT, ACIDIC SODIUM ALUMINUM PHOSPHATE, ALUMINUM SULFATE, SODIUM BICARBONATE, WHEY (MILK), EGG WHITES., WHOLE EGGS, SOYBEAN OIL, WATER, SUGAR, WATER, CORN SYRUP ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, POTASSIUM SORBATE (PRESERVATIVE), CITRIC ACID,AGAR, MONO AND DIGLYCERIDES, LOCUST BEAN GUM., POPPY SEED., LEMON EMULSION - (WATER, PROPYLENE GLYCOL, NATURAL FLAVORS, XANTHAN GUM, CITRIC ACID, SODIUM BENZOATE,BHA), FRUIT BASE(HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP, LEMON PEEL (LEMON PEEL, WATER AND CITRIC ACID), CORN SYRUP, DEXTROSE.CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF EACH OF THE FOLLOWING NATURAL FLAVORS, WATER, CITRIC ACID, PECTIN (SUCROSE), PRESERVATIVES (SODIUM BENZOATE, SODIUM PROPIONATE, POTASSIUM SORBATE), YELLOW 5, SODIUM CITRATE.), ENRICHED WHEAT FLOUR (WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID), ENZYMES (CONTAINS WHEAT)., WATER, SUGAR, GLYCERINE, FD & C YELLOW #5 MODIFIED CORN STARCH, CARRAGEENAN, POTASSIUM SORBATE (PRESERVATIVE).XANTHAN GUM, CITRIC ACID,MALTODEXTRIN, DEXTROSE.

From USDA FoodData Central, label dated 2022-12-22. Labels change; check the package.

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