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7-Eleven Honey Biscuit With Sausage And Cheddar Cheese, Honey Biscuit With Sausage And Cheddar

7-Eleven, Inc. · Breakfast Sandwiches, Biscuits & Meals · barcode 00052548691820

What stands out

  • From the label

    The ingredients list BHA (butylated hydroxyanisole), which has stricter rules elsewhere. Strictest: West Virginia ban from 2028. Details

  • Lab testsNo lab has published results for this exact product.
  • RecallsNo FDA recall lists this barcode.
  • Additives1 ingredient has stricter rules elsewhere. Strictest: West Virginia ban from 2028. Which
  • TypicalFDA's tests of breakfast sandwiches, biscuits & meals show what's typical. See levels

Additives with restrictions somewhere

From the ingredient list on file (label data dated 2021-10-28). Recipes change, so check the package you have.

Rules that apply to more than one of these

  • US (FDA): Allowed Source. Applies to all of them.
  • EU: Allowed (Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008) Source. Applies to BHA (butylated hydroxyanisole), DATEM, BHT (butylated hydroxytoluene).
  • 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), BHT (butylated hydroxytoluene).
  • 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 BHA (butylated hydroxyanisole), Bleached flour, BHT (butylated hydroxytoluene).

BHA (butylated hydroxyanisole) (E320)

  • 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

Bleached flour

Only the shared rules above.

DATEM (E472e)

Only the shared rules above.

BHT (butylated hydroxytoluene) (E321)

Only the shared rules above.

Typical for breakfast sandwiches, biscuits & meals

FDA doesn't test this exact kind of food, so these are the closest foods it does test. Treat them as a rough guide.

FDA samples behind these numbers
  • Lead in Biscuits, fast-food: found in 2 of 27 samples, average 0.42, highest 6.8 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Lead in Eggs, hard-boiled: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 4 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Lead in English muffin, plain, toasted: found in 3 of 27 samples, average 0.79, highest 9.7 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Lead in Pork bacon, oven-cooked: found in 4 of 27 samples, average 0.63, highest 4.7 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Cadmium in Biscuits, fast-food: found in 27 of 27 samples, average 19.4, highest 26 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Cadmium in Eggs, hard-boiled: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Cadmium in English muffin, plain, toasted: found in 27 of 27 samples, average 28.6, highest 39 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Cadmium in Pork bacon, oven-cooked: found in 14 of 27 samples, average 1.62, highest 11 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Mercury in Biscuits, fast-food: found in 1 of 27 samples, average 0.04, highest 1.1 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Mercury in Eggs, hard-boiled: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Mercury in English muffin, plain, toasted: found in 1 of 27 samples, average 0.04, highest 1 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Mercury in Pork bacon, oven-cooked: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Arsenic (total) in Biscuits, fast-food: found in 27 of 27 samples, average 6.9, highest 10 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Arsenic (total) in Eggs, hard-boiled: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 3 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Arsenic (total) in English muffin, plain, toasted: found in 26 of 27 samples, average 5.06, highest 10 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Arsenic (total) in Pork bacon, oven-cooked: found in 5 of 27 samples, average 0.61, highest 3.8 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Perchlorate in Eggs, boiled: found in 13 of 20 samples, average 1.09, highest 2 ppb (2008-2012)
  • Perchlorate in English muffin, plain, toasted: found in 15 of 20 samples, average 5.36, highest 34.6 ppb (2008-2012)
  • Perchlorate in Pork bacon, oven-cooked: found in 13 of 20 samples, average 19, highest 139 ppb (2008-2012)

Left out of the summary above: Perchlorate. FDA measured it in only some of these foods, so the result describes those foods, not the whole kind.

"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)

HONEY BUTTER BISCUIT (ENRICHED FLOUR (BLEACHED WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID), WATER, HONEY FLAVORED FLAKES (SUGAR, FRACTIONATED PALM KERNEL OIL, HONEY GRANULES (REFINERY SYRUP, HONEY), DEXTROSE, NATURAL FLAVOR, SOY LECITHIN, SALT, NONFAT DRY MILK), PALM OIL, CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF : SUGAR, CULTURED BUTTERMILK, (CULTURED NONFAT MILK, GUAR GUM, TAPIOCA STARCH, CARRAGEENAN, LOCUST BEAN GUM, MONO & DIGLYCERIDES, MODIFIED TAPIOCA STARCH, SALT, SODIUM CITRATE), BAKING SODA, SODIUM ALUMINUM PHOSPHATE, MOLASSES (REFINERS SYRUP, CANE MOLASSES), NONFAT DRY MILK, SALT, DATEM, CALCIUM PROPIONATE (PRESERVATIVE), MONOCALCIUM PHOSPHATE, XANTHAN GUM, NATURAL FLAVOR), FULLY COOKED AND BROWNED SQUARE PORK SAUSAGE PATTY (PORK, WATER, CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF: SALT, DEXTROSE, SPICES, CITRIC ACID, BHA, BHT AND PROPYL GALLATE), CHEDDAR CHEESE (PASTEURIZED MILK, CHEESE CULTURE, SALT, ENZYMES, ANNATTO (VEGETABLE COLOR))

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

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