Herr's Creamy French Onion Dip, French Onion

Herr Foods Inc. · Dips & Salsa · barcode 00072600003798

What stands out

From the label
The ingredients list Titanium dioxide, which has stricter rules elsewhere. Strictest: Not allowed in the EU since 2022. Details

Lab testsNo lab has published results for this exact product.
RecallsNo FDA recall lists this barcode.
Additives1 ingredient has stricter rules elsewhere. Strictest: Not allowed in the EU since 2022. Which
TypicalFDA's tests of dips & salsa show what's typical. See levels

Additives with restrictions somewhere

From the ingredient list on file (label data dated 2023-07-13). 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.

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

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

Typical for dips & salsa

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

Cadmium: typically 19 ppb (FDA, 3 samples, 2018-2020). A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 760 g (27 oz) a day; an adult at about 3.6 kg (7.9 lb).
One serving (30 g, from the label):
4% of a toddler's daily limit
under 1% of an adult's daily limit
Perchlorate: typically 3.5 ppb (FDA, 20 samples, 2008-2012). A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 2.1 kg (4.6 lb) a day; an adult at about 9.9 kg (22 lb).
One serving (30 g, from the label):
1% of a toddler's daily limit
under 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 Salsa, tomato, bottled: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 4 ppb (2018-2020)
Cadmium in Salsa, tomato, bottled: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 19.7, highest 21 ppb (2018-2020)
Mercury in Salsa, tomato, bottled: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
Arsenic (total) in Salsa, tomato, bottled: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 3 ppb (2018-2020)
Perchlorate in Tomato salsa, bottled: found in 19 of 20 samples, average 4.93, highest 19 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)

WATER, CANOLA OIL, DEHYDRATED ONIONS, FOOD STARCH MODIFIED, WHEY PROTEIN CONCENTRATE, SALT, NATURAL FLAVORS, SUGAR, GLUCONO DELTA LACTONE, BEEF EXTRACT, HYDROLYZED CORN PROTEIN, YEAST EXTRACT, DISODIUM DIPHOSPHATE, LACTIC ACID, SODIUM ASCORBATE, TITANIUM DIOXIDE (COLOR), DATEM, XANTHAN GUM, LOCUST BEAN GUM AND/OR TARA GUM, DEXTROSE

From USDA FoodData Central, label dated 2023-07-13. Labels change; check the package.

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