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Royal Chocolate Sugar Free Instant Reduced Calorie Pudding & Pie Filling, Chocolate

The Jel Sert Company · Puddings & Custards · barcode 00072392009121

What stands out

  • From the label

    The ingredients list Partially hydrogenated oils, Red No. 40 (Allura Red), Yellow No. 5 (tartrazine) and Blue No. 2 (indigotine), 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.
  • RecallsNo FDA recall lists this barcode.
  • Additives4 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

Additives with restrictions somewhere

From the ingredient list on file (label data dated 2023-03-16). 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 Partially hydrogenated oils, Red No. 40 (Allura Red), Yellow No. 5 (tartrazine), Blue No. 2 (indigotine).
  • 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 Red No. 40 (Allura Red), Yellow No. 5 (tartrazine), Blue No. 2 (indigotine).
  • EU: Allowed with warning label (Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008, Annex V) Source. Applies to Red No. 40 (Allura Red), Yellow No. 5 (tartrazine).
  • 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 Red No. 40 (Allura Red), Yellow No. 5 (tartrazine), Blue No. 2 (indigotine).
  • 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 Red No. 40 (Allura Red), Yellow No. 5 (tartrazine), Blue No. 2 (indigotine).
  • 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 Red No. 40 (Allura Red), Yellow No. 5 (tartrazine), Blue No. 2 (indigotine).
  • 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 Red No. 40 (Allura Red), Yellow No. 5 (tartrazine), Blue No. 2 (indigotine), Aspartame, Acesulfame potassium.
  • EU: Allowed (Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008) Source. Applies to Blue No. 2 (indigotine), Aspartame, Acesulfame potassium.
  • US (FDA): Allowed FDA approved it as a sweetener. Source. Applies to Aspartame, Acesulfame potassium.

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

Red No. 40 (Allura Red) (E129)

Only the shared rules above.

Yellow No. 5 (tartrazine) (E102)

Only the shared rules above.

Blue No. 2 (indigotine) (E132)

Only the shared rules above.

Aspartame (E951)

Only the shared rules above.

Acesulfame potassium (E950)

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.

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)

MALTODEXTRIN, FOOD STARCH MODIFIED, COCOA (PROCESSED WITH ALKALI), DISODIUM PHOSPHATE AND TETRASODIUM PYROPHOSPHATE (STABILIZERS), NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, CONTAINS LESS THAN 2% OF THE FOLLOWING: CALCIUM SULFATE (FOR PROPER SET), ASPARTAME* AND ACESULFAME POTASSIUM (SWEETENERS), MONO- AND DIGLYCERIDES (EMULSIFIER), PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED COTTONSEED OIL WITH TBHQ AND CITRIC ACID ADDED TO PRESERVE FRESHNESS, RED 40, YELLOW 5, BLUE 2.

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

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