Bread & Muffin Mixes · barcode 00039978006677

Bob's Red Mill, 100% Whole Wheat Bread Mix

Bob's Red Mill · Bob's Red Mill Natural Foods, Inc.

FDA recalls

• 2018-05-16 · Class II · Terminated 100% Whole Wheat Bread Mix is recalled due to undeclared wheat in the label on the back side of the package.Bob's Red Mill Natural Foods, Inc.: Bob's Red Mill 100% Whole Wheat Bread Mix, Item 1674C194, packaged in flexible packaging bag, 4 bags to a cardboard case, each bag weighs 19 oz. The UPC is 0 39978 00667 7. The label on the FRONT side of a package is read in parts: "***Bob's Red Mill ***100% WHOLE WHEAT BREAD MIX***". The label on the BACK side of a package is read in parts: "***INGREDIENT: Bread Mix: Whole Grain Buckwheat, Garbanzo Bean Flour, Potato Starch, Cornstarch, Sunflower Seeds, Sesame Seeds, Whole Grain Sorghum Flour, Tapioca Flour, Cocoa Powder, Cane Sugar, Fava Bean Flour, Dried Molasses (Molasses, Maltodextrin, Silicon Dioxide), Xanthan Gum, Caraway Seeds, Sea Salt, Whole Grain Teff, Potato Flour, Onion Powder, Guar Gum, Soy Lecithin. Yeast Packet: Yeast Sorbitan Monostearate, Ascorbic Acid***". FDA record F-1389-2018

Typical for bread & muffin mixes

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 18.3 ppb (FDA, 57 samples, 2017-2020). A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 850 g (30 oz) a day; an adult at about 4 kg (8.8 lb).
  One serving (100 g (3½ oz)):

  12% of a toddler's daily limit

  3% of a adult's daily limit
• Arsenic (total): typically 2.49 ppb (FDA, 57 samples, 2017-2020). No US agency limit we can cite.
• Perchlorate: typically 2.13 ppb (FDA, 60 samples, 2008-2012). A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 4.4 kg (9.7 lb) a day; an adult at about 21 kg (46 lb).
  One serving (100 g (3½ oz)):

  2% of a toddler's daily limit

  under 1% of a 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 Bread, white, enriched, pre-sliced: found in 9 of 27, average 2.28, highest 23 ppb (2017-2020)
• Lead in Cornbread, homemade: found in 2 of 3, average 6.43, highest 14 ppb (2018-2020)
• Lead in Muffin, blueberry: found in 1 of 27, average 0.19, highest 5 ppb (2017-2020)
• Cadmium in Bread, white, enriched, pre-sliced: found in 27 of 27, average 27.4, highest 37 ppb (2017-2020)
• Cadmium in Cornbread, homemade: found in 3 of 3, average 10, highest 11 ppb (2018-2020)
• Cadmium in Muffin, blueberry: found in 27 of 27, average 8.81, highest 12 ppb (2017-2020)
• Mercury in Bread, white, enriched, pre-sliced: found in 0 of 27, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
• Mercury in Cornbread, homemade: found in 3 of 3, average 3.3, highest 4.2 ppb (2018-2020)
• Mercury in Muffin, blueberry: found in 0 of 27, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
• Arsenic (total) in Bread, white, enriched, pre-sliced: found in 26 of 27, average 5.06, highest 9 ppb (2017-2020)
• Arsenic (total) in Cornbread, homemade: found in 3 of 3, average 3.23, highest 3.5 ppb (2018-2020)
• Arsenic (total) in Muffin, blueberry: found in 12 of 27, average 1.8, highest 5.3 ppb (2017-2020)
• Perchlorate in Bread, white, enriched: found in 12 of 20, average 2.55, highest 9 ppb (2008-2012)
• Perchlorate in Cornbread, homemade: found in 12 of 20, average 3.1, highest 12 ppb (2008-2012)
• Perchlorate in Muffin, fruit or plain: found in 8 of 20, average 1.47, highest 8 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)

STONE GROUND WHOLE WHEAT FLOUR, VITAL WHEAT GLUTEN, SUNFLOWER SEEDS, DRY MOLASSES (MOLASSES, MALTODEXTRIN, SILICON DIOXIDE), DRY HONEY (MALTODEXTRIN, CORN SYRUP SOLIDS, HONEY), FLAXSEED, SALT AND ACTIVE DRY YEAST.

From USDA FoodData Central, label dated 2021-10-28. Labels change; check the package.

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