Puddings & Custards · barcode 00037600720694
Instant Pudding & Pie Filling, Caramel Apple
Seasonal Selections · Hormel Foods Corporation
- Lab testsNo lab has published results for this exact product.
- RecallsNo FDA recall lists this barcode.
- Additives1 ingredient is banned or unapproved somewhere. Which
- TypicalFDA's tests of puddings & custards show what's typical. See levels
Additives with restrictions somewhere
From the ingredient list on file (label data dated 2021-07-29). 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 puddings & custards
What FDA found when it bought and tested this kind of food across the US. These are not tests of this product.
- Cadmium: typically 4.3 ppb (FDA, 3 samples, 2018-2020).
A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 3.1 kg (6.8 lb) a day; an adult at about 14 kg (31 lb).One serving (100 g (3½ oz)):3% of a toddler's daily limitunder 1% of a adult's daily limit
- Lead, Mercury, Arsenic (total): usually below 4 ppb, the lab's limit, in FDA's samples.
FDA samples behind these numbers
- Lead in Pudding, ready-to-eat, chocolate: found in 1 of 3, average 1.43, highest 4.3 ppb (2018-2020)
- Cadmium in Pudding, ready-to-eat, chocolate: found in 3 of 3, average 4.87, highest 6.4 ppb (2018-2020)
- Mercury in Pudding, ready-to-eat, chocolate: found in 0 of 3, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Pudding, ready-to-eat, chocolate: found in 1 of 3, average 1.07, highest 3.2 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, MODIFIED FOOD STARCH, DEXTROSE, CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF DISODIUM PHOSPHATE, TETRASODIUM PYROPHOSPHATE (FOR THICKENING), NATURAL FLAVOR, CARAMEL COLOR, SALT, NONFAT DRY MILK, MONO- AND DIGLYCERIDES (CONTAINS PROPYL GALLATE AND CITRIC ACID AS ANTIOXIDANTS), PALM OIL, MALTODEXTRIN, TITANIUM DIOXIDE (FOR COLOR), GUM ACACIA, SILICON DIOXIDE (ANTICAKING AGENT).
From USDA FoodData Central, label dated 2021-07-29. Labels change; check the package.