Tastee Graham 'N Cream Handmade Gourmet Caramel Apples
Tastee Apple, Inc. · Pre-Packaged Fruit & Vegetables · barcode 00035266004653
What stands out
- From the label
The ingredients list Partially hydrogenated oils, which has stricter rules elsewhere. Strictest: No longer allowed by FDA. Details
- Lab testsNo lab has published results for this exact product.
- RecallsNo FDA recall lists this barcode.
- Additives1 ingredient has stricter rules elsewhere. Strictest: No longer allowed by FDA. Which
- TypicalFDA's tests of pre-packaged fruit & vegetables show what's typical. See levels
- Others11 other pre-packaged fruit & vegetables products have lab results. Compare them
Additives with restrictions somewhere
From the ingredient list on file (label data dated 2022-12-22). Recipes change, so check the package you have.
Partially hydrogenated oils
- US (FDA): Authorization revoked FDA determined in 2015 that they are no longer generally recognized as safe; makers had to remove them, with final compliance dates in 2018-2020. Labels on file may predate that. (80 FR 34650 (2015)) 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 pre-packaged fruit & vegetables
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 18.5 ppb (FDA, 108 samples, 2017-2020).
A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 700 g (25 oz) a day; an adult at about 3.3 kg (7.3 lb).One serving (2 oz, 56 g, from the label):8% of a toddler's daily limit2% of an adult's daily limit
- Arsenic (total): typically 2.13 ppb (FDA, 108 samples, 2017-2020). No US agency limit we can cite.
- Perchlorate: typically 5 ppb (FDA, 80 samples, 2008-2012).
A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 890 g (31 oz) a day; an adult at about 4.2 kg (9.3 lb).One serving (2 oz, 56 g, from the label):6% of a toddler's daily limit1% of an adult's daily limit
- Lead, Mercury: usually below 4 ppb, the lab's limit, in FDA's samples.
FDA samples behind these numbers
- Lead in Apple, red, with peel, raw: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 4 ppb (2017-2020)
- Lead in Carrot, baby, raw: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 4 ppb (2017-2020)
- Lead in Grapes, seedless, red/green, raw: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 4 ppb (2017-2020)
- Lead in Lettuce, leaf, raw: found in 7 of 27 samples, average 1.86, highest 13 ppb (2017-2020)
- Cadmium in Apple, red, with peel, raw: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
- Cadmium in Carrot, baby, raw: found in 27 of 27 samples, average 24.8, highest 83 ppb (2017-2020)
- Cadmium in Grapes, seedless, red/green, raw: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
- Cadmium in Lettuce, leaf, raw: found in 27 of 27 samples, average 61.1, highest 200 ppb (2017-2020)
- Mercury in Apple, red, with peel, raw: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
- Mercury in Carrot, baby, raw: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
- Mercury in Grapes, seedless, red/green, raw: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
- Mercury in Lettuce, leaf, raw: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Apple, red, with peel, raw: found in 7 of 27 samples, average 1.88, highest 20 ppb (2017-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Carrot, baby, raw: found in 24 of 27 samples, average 4.99, highest 10 ppb (2017-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Grapes, seedless, red/green, raw: found in 16 of 27 samples, average 3.12, highest 9 ppb (2017-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Lettuce, leaf, raw: found in 8 of 27 samples, average 1.71, highest 9.2 ppb (2017-2020)
- Perchlorate in Apple (red), raw (w/ peel): found in 1 of 20 samples, average 0.05, highest 1 ppb (2008-2012)
- Perchlorate in Carrot, baby, raw: found in 18 of 20 samples, average 6.68, highest 40 ppb (2008-2012)
- Perchlorate in Grapes (red/green), raw: found in 14 of 20 samples, average 25.8, highest 90.6 ppb (2008-2012)
- Perchlorate in Lettuce, leaf, raw: found in 17 of 20 samples, average 14.7, highest 229 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)
APPLE, CARAMEL (CORN SYRUP, SUGAR, CONDENSED MILK (MILK, SUCROSE), HYDROGENATED SOYBEAN OIL, EVAPORATED MILK (DISODIUM PHOSPHATE, CARRAGEENAN), SOY FLOUR, LECITHIN, MONODIGLYCERIDE, VANILLIN AND SALT), WHITE CHOCOLATE COATING (SUGAR, PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED VEGETABLE OIL [PALM KERNEL AND/OR COTTONSEED], SKIM MILK POWDER, COCOA, VANILLA, SORBITAN TRISTERATE [AN EMULSIFIER], SOY LECITHIN [AN EMULSIFIER], NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVORS AND SALT, GRAHAM COATING ENRICHED FLOUR (WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMIN MONONITRATE (VITAMIN B1), RIBOFLAVIN (VITAMIN B2), FOLIC ACID), HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP, WHOLE WHEAT FLOUR, VEGETABLE OIL (SOYBEAN, PALM, AND PALM KERNEL OIL), CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF BAKING SODA, SALT, HONEY.
From USDA FoodData Central, label dated 2022-12-22. Labels change; check the package.