Best Choice Instant Pudding & Pie Filling, French Vanilla
Associated Wholesale Grocers, Inc. · Puddings & Custards · barcode 00070038312215
What stands out
- Recall
1 FDA recall names this barcode (2017, closed): possible Salmonella. Details
- From the label
The ingredients list Partially hydrogenated oils, Yellow No. 5 (tartrazine) and Yellow No. 6 (Sunset Yellow), which have stricter rules elsewhere. Strictest: No longer allowed by FDA; EU warning label. Details
- Lab testsNo lab has published results for this exact product.
- Recalls1 FDA recall names this barcode (2017, closed). Details
- Additives3 ingredients have stricter rules elsewhere. Strictest: No longer allowed by FDA; EU warning label. Which
- TypicalFDA's tests of puddings & custards show what's typical. See levels
FDA recalls
- 2017-02-15 · Class I · Terminated Subco Foods of Wisconsin was notified by their supplier that the high heat nonfat dry milk powder, an ingredient from that they supplied, was being recalled due to possible Salmonella contamination.Subco Foods of Wisconsin, Inc.: Best Choice French Vanilla Instant Pudding & Pie Filling, UPC 0 70038 31221 5, Distributed by Associated Wholesale Grocers, INC, 3.4 oz. Recall F-1437-2017 details
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
- 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: 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.
- US (FDA): Allowed Source. Applies to Yellow No. 5 (tartrazine), Yellow No. 6 (Sunset Yellow).
- EU: Allowed with warning label (Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008, Annex V) Source. Applies to Yellow No. 5 (tartrazine), Yellow No. 6 (Sunset Yellow).
- 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. Applies to Yellow No. 5 (tartrazine), Yellow No. 6 (Sunset Yellow).
- 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 Yellow No. 5 (tartrazine), Yellow No. 6 (Sunset Yellow).
- West Virginia: Banned in school meals from 2025-08-01 Banned in West Virginia school meals since August 1, 2025. (HB 2354 (2025)) Source. Applies to Yellow No. 5 (tartrazine), Yellow No. 6 (Sunset Yellow).
- 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 Yellow No. 5 (tartrazine), Yellow No. 6 (Sunset Yellow).
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
Yellow No. 5 (tartrazine) (E102)
Only the shared rules above.
Yellow No. 6 (Sunset Yellow) (E110)
Only the shared rules above.
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 (0.25 package, 24 g, from the label):under 1% of a toddler's daily limitunder 1% of an 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 samples, average 1.43, highest 4.3 ppb (2018-2020)
- Cadmium in Pudding, ready-to-eat, chocolate: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 4.87, highest 6.4 ppb (2018-2020)
- Mercury in Pudding, ready-to-eat, chocolate: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Pudding, ready-to-eat, chocolate: found in 1 of 3 samples, 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, CORN STARCH, TETRASODIUM PYROPHOSPHATE, DISODIUM PHOSPHATE, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVORS, EMULSIFIER (MONO AND DIGLYCERIDES, PROPYLENE GLYCOL WITH PROPYL GALLATE, AND CITRIC ACID), PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED SOYBEAN OIL, SALT, NONFAT DRY MILK, YELLOW 5, YELLOW 6.
From USDA FoodData Central, label dated 2021-10-28. Labels change; check the package.