Cookies & Biscuits · barcode 00072250091565

Vanilla Creme Filled Cakes, Vanilla

Mrs. Freshley's · Flowers Foods, Inc.

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 cookies & biscuits show what's typical. See levels

Additives with restrictions somewhere

From the ingredient list on file (label data dated 2023-03-16). 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

DATEM (E472e)

US (FDA): Allowed FDA lists it as generally recognized as safe. Source
EU: Allowed On the EU's list of approved additives as E472e. (Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008) 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 cookies & biscuits

What FDA found when it bought and tested this kind of food across the US. These are not tests of this product.

Lead: typically 5.33 ppb (FDA, 9 samples, 2018-2020). A toddler reaches FDA's daily limit at about 310 g (11 oz) a day; an adult at about 1.3 kg (2.9 lb).
One serving (100 g (3½ oz)):
32% of a toddler's daily limit
8% of a adult's daily limit
Cadmium: typically 26.7 ppb (FDA, 9 samples, 2018-2020). A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 550 g (19 oz) a day; an adult at about 2.6 kg (5.7 lb).
One serving (100 g (3½ oz)):
18% of a toddler's daily limit
4% of a adult's daily limit
Arsenic (total): typically 3.7 ppb (FDA, 9 samples, 2018-2020). No US agency limit we can cite.
Mercury, Perchlorate: usually below 1 ppb, the lab's limit, in FDA's samples.

FDA samples behind these numbers

Lead in Cookies, chocolate chip: found in 3 of 3, average 7.57, highest 10 ppb (2018-2020)
Lead in Cookies, sandwich, with crème filling: found in 3 of 3, average 13.4, highest 24 ppb (2018-2020)
Lead in Cookies, sugar: found in 0 of 3, all below 4 ppb (2018-2020)
Cadmium in Cookies, chocolate chip: found in 3 of 3, average 48.3, highest 68 ppb (2018-2020)
Cadmium in Cookies, sandwich, with crème filling: found in 3 of 3, average 18.3, highest 25 ppb (2018-2020)
Cadmium in Cookies, sugar: found in 3 of 3, average 15.7, highest 18 ppb (2018-2020)
Mercury in Cookies, chocolate chip: found in 1 of 3, average 0.57, highest 1.7 ppb (2018-2020)
Mercury in Cookies, sandwich, with crème filling: found in 1 of 3, average 0.53, highest 1.6 ppb (2018-2020)
Mercury in Cookies, sugar: found in 0 of 3, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
Arsenic (total) in Cookies, chocolate chip: found in 2 of 3, average 3.43, highest 5.2 ppb (2018-2020)
Arsenic (total) in Cookies, sandwich, with crème filling: found in 3 of 3, average 5.6, highest 7.2 ppb (2018-2020)
Arsenic (total) in Cookies, sugar: found in 0 of 3, all below 3 ppb (2018-2020)
Perchlorate in Chocolate chip cookies: found in 6 of 20, average 0.53, highest 3 ppb (2008-2012)
Perchlorate in Sandwich cookies w/ creme filling: found in 5 of 20, average 0.6, highest 3 ppb (2008-2012)
Perchlorate in Sugar cookies: found in 13 of 19, average 3.07, highest 15.4 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)

SUGAR, WHEY (MILK), BLEACHED AND UNBLEACHED ENRICHED FLOUR (WHEAT FLOUR, MALTED BARLEY FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMIN MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID), VEGETABLE OILS (PALM OIL AND SOYBEAN OIL), EGGS, CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF EACH OF THE FOLLOWING: WATER, EGG WHITES, NONFAT MILK, CORN STARCH, GLYCERINE, HYDROGENATED PALM KERNEL OIL, CORN SYRUP, HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP, MONO- AND DIGLYCERIDES, MODIFIED CORN STARCH, CALCIUM CARBONATE, DEXTROSE, LEAVENING (SODIUM ACID PYROPHOSPHATE, BAKING SODA, MONOCALCIUM PHOSPHATE), AGAVE SYRUP, INULIN (AGAVE), SALT, CALCIUM SULFATE, POLYSORBATE 80, GUAR GUM, POLYSORBATE 60, MALTODEXTRIN, SORBITAN MONOSTEARATE, CELLULOSE GUM, AGAR, DATEM, SODIUM STEAROYL LACTYLATE, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVORS, CELLULOSE, SOY LECITHIN, TITANIUM DIOXIDE (COLOR), SODIUM HEXAMETAPHOSPHATE, COLORED WITH EXTRACTIVES OF TURMERIC AND ANNATTO SEED, TRICALCIUM PHOSPHATE, SOY FLOUR, MONOGLYCERIDES, CITRIC ACID, CARAMEL COLOR, XANTHAN GUM, PRESERVED WITH POTASSIUM SORBATE, SORBIC ACID AND SODIUM PROPIONATE.

From USDA FoodData Central, label dated 2023-03-16. Labels change; check the package.

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