Lunds & Byerlys Mild Heat Green Bell Premium Pepper Jelly, Mild Heat Green Bell
Lunds Inc · Jam, Jelly & Fruit Spreads · barcode 00072431018909
What stands out
- From the label
The ingredients list Yellow No. 5 (tartrazine) and Blue No. 1 (Brilliant Blue), which have stricter rules elsewhere. Strictest: West Virginia ban from 2028; EU warning label. Details
- Lab testsNo lab has published results for this exact product.
- RecallsNo FDA recall lists this barcode.
- Additives2 ingredients have stricter rules elsewhere. Strictest: West Virginia ban from 2028; EU warning label. Which
- TypicalFDA's tests of jam, jelly & fruit spreads 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
- US (FDA): Allowed Source. Applies to all of them.
- 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 all of them.
- 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 all of them.
- 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 all of them.
- 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 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.
Yellow No. 5 (tartrazine) (E102)
- EU: Allowed with warning label Allowed as E102, but foods containing it must say it "may have an adverse effect on activity and attention in children." (Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008, Annex V) Source
Blue No. 1 (Brilliant Blue) (E133)
- EU: Allowed On the EU's list of approved additives as E133. (Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008) Source
Typical for jam, jelly & fruit spreads
What FDA found when it bought and tested this kind of food across the US. These are not tests of this product.
- Arsenic (total): typically 9.9 ppb (FDA, 3 samples, 2018-2020). No US agency limit we can cite.
- Perchlorate: typically 2 ppb (FDA, 19 samples, 2008-2012).
A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 4.9 kg (11 lb) a day; an adult at about 23 kg (51 lb).One serving (0.7 oz, 19 g, from the label):under 1% of a toddler's daily limitunder 1% of an adult's daily limit
- Lead, Cadmium, Mercury: usually below 4 ppb, the lab's limit, in FDA's samples.
FDA samples behind these numbers
- Lead in Jelly, grape: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 4 ppb (2018-2020)
- Cadmium in Jelly, grape: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Mercury in Jelly, grape: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Jelly, grape: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 13, highest 20 ppb (2018-2020)
- Perchlorate in Jelly, any flavor: found in 12 of 19 samples, average 2.16, highest 6.3 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)
PURE CANE SUGAR, GREEN BELL PEPPERS, APPLE CIDER VINEGAR, FRUIT PECTIN, CITRIC ACID, MINCED ONION, CAPSICUM AND GREEN FOOD COLOR (WATER, FD&C YELLOW NO. 5, FD&C BLUE NO. 1, CITRIC ACID, SODIUM BENZOATE)
From USDA FoodData Central, label dated 2023-03-16. Labels change; check the package.