Heinemann's Bakeries Cream Cheese Banana Cake With Salted Caramel Frosting, Cream Cheese Banana With Salted Caramel Frosting

Buttercup Bakeries Inc · Cakes, Cupcakes, Snack Cakes · barcode 00076185552177

What stands out

From the label
The ingredients list Yellow No. 5 (tartrazine), BHA (butylated hydroxyanisole) and Titanium dioxide, which have stricter rules elsewhere. Strictest: Not allowed in the EU since 2022; West Virginia ban from 2028. Details

Lab testsNo lab has published results for this exact product.
RecallsNo FDA recall lists this barcode.
Additives3 ingredients have stricter rules elsewhere. Strictest: Not allowed in the EU since 2022; West Virginia ban from 2028. Which
TypicalFDA's tests of cakes, cupcakes, snack cakes show what's typical. See levels

Additives with restrictions somewhere

From the ingredient list on file (label data dated 2021-07-29). Recipes change, so check the package you have.

Rules that apply to more than one of these

US (FDA): Allowed Source. Applies to Yellow No. 5 (tartrazine), Titanium dioxide.
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), BHA (butylated hydroxyanisole).
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 Yellow No. 5 (tartrazine), BHA (butylated hydroxyanisole), BHT (butylated hydroxytoluene).
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 Yellow No. 5 (tartrazine), BHA (butylated hydroxyanisole), Bleached flour, BHT (butylated hydroxytoluene).
US (FDA): Allowed Source. Applies to BHA (butylated hydroxyanisole), Bleached flour, BHT (butylated hydroxytoluene).
EU: Allowed (Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008) Source. Applies to BHA (butylated hydroxyanisole), BHT (butylated hydroxytoluene).

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
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
West Virginia: Banned in school meals from 2025-08-01 Banned in West Virginia school meals since August 1, 2025. (HB 2354 (2025)) Source

BHA (butylated hydroxyanisole) (E320)

Only the shared rules above.

Titanium dioxide (E171)

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

BHT (butylated hydroxytoluene) (E321)

Only the shared rules above.

Typical for cakes, cupcakes, snack cakes

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

Lead: typically 3.9 ppb (FDA, 54 samples, 2017-2020). A toddler reaches FDA's daily limit at about 380 g (13 oz) a day; an adult at about 1.5 kg (3.3 lb).
One serving (1 slice, 80 g, from the label):
21% of a toddler's daily limit
5% of an adult's daily limit
Cadmium: typically 9.7 ppb (FDA, 54 samples, 2017-2020). A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 1.4 kg (3.1 lb) a day; an adult at about 6.4 kg (14 lb).
One serving (1 slice, 80 g, from the label):
6% of a toddler's daily limit
1% of an adult's daily limit
Arsenic (total): typically 1.9 ppb (FDA, 54 samples, 2017-2020). No US agency limit we can cite.
Perchlorate: typically 1.5 ppb (FDA, 40 samples, 2008-2012). A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 4.5 kg (9.9 lb) a day; an adult at about 21 kg (46 lb).
One serving (1 slice, 80 g, from the label):
2% of a toddler's daily limit
under 1% of an adult's daily limit
Mercury: usually below 1 ppb, the lab's limit, in FDA's samples.

FDA samples behind these numbers

Lead in Cake, chocolate with chocolate icing: found in 27 of 27 samples, average 8.92, highest 16 ppb (2017-2020)
Lead in Cake, white with white icing: found in 9 of 27 samples, average 2.56, highest 17 ppb (2017-2020)
Cadmium in Cake, chocolate with chocolate icing: found in 27 of 27 samples, average 17.6, highest 40 ppb (2017-2020)
Cadmium in Cake, white with white icing: found in 27 of 27 samples, average 4.13, highest 6.4 ppb (2017-2020)
Mercury in Cake, chocolate with chocolate icing: found in 9 of 27 samples, average 0.45, highest 1.9 ppb (2017-2020)
Mercury in Cake, white with white icing: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
Arsenic (total) in Cake, chocolate with chocolate icing: found in 25 of 27 samples, average 3.6, highest 4.6 ppb (2017-2020)
Arsenic (total) in Cake, white with white icing: found in 10 of 27 samples, average 1.72, highest 7.4 ppb (2017-2020)
Perchlorate in Cake, chocolate w/ icing: found in 12 of 20 samples, average 2.76, highest 14 ppb (2008-2012)
Perchlorate in Cake, white w/ icing (formerly yellow cake): found in 12 of 20 samples, average 1.88, highest 9 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 ENRICHED WHEAT FLOUR BLEACHED FLOUR, NIACIN REDUCED IRON. THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVN FOLIC ACID, SOYBE AN OIL. LEAVENING (BAKING SODA, SODIUM ACID PYROPHOSPHATE SODIUM ALUMINUM PHOSPHATE MONOCALCIUM PHOSPHATE, ALUMINUM SULFATE) FOOD STARCH-MODIFIED DEXTROSE PROPYLENE GLYCOL MONO & DIESTERS OF FATTY ACIDS. MONO & DIGLYCERIDES WITH BHT & CITRIC ACID AS PRESERVATIVES, SALT NONFAT MILK SOLIDS SORBITAN MONOSTEARATE, ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR SOY LECITHIN XANTHAN GUM CELLULOSE GUM POLYSORBATE 60 WHEAT STARCH SILICON DIOXIDE WATER SUCROSE MALTODEXTRIN, EGG WHITES GUAR GUM TRIETHYL CITRATE WHOLE EGGS MARGARINE PALM OIL WATER, SOYBE AN OIL, SALT WITH MONO AND DIGLYCERIDES ADDED COLORED WITH ANNATTO CALCIUM DISODIUM EDTA ADDED AS A PRESERVATIVE ARTIFICIAL BUTTER FLAVOR VITAMIN A PALMITATE ADDED) WHEY LEAVENING BAKING SODA SODIUM ALUMINUM PHOSPHATE ALUMINUM SULFATE, VITAL WHEAT GLUTEN, SODIUM STEAROYL LACTYLATE TRICALCIUM PHOSPHATE ASCORBIC ACID (DOUGH CONDITIONER) CREAM CHEESE PASTEURIZED MILK CREAM CHEESE CULTURE, CAROB BEAN GUM), SHORTENING (PALM OIL & SOYBE AN OIL WITH MONO- AND DIGLYCERIDES AND POLYSORBATE 60 ADDED, TBHQ AND CITRIC ACID ADDED TO PROTECT FLAVOR). HYDROGENATED PALM KERNEL OIL, COCOA PROCESSED WITH ALKALI, BANANA PUREE (BANANA, CITRIC ACID ASCORBIC ACID), HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP PRESERVATIVES (SODIUM BENZOATE, SODIUM PROPIONATE, POTASSIUM SORBATE), ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR. YELLOW 5, CHOCOLATE LIQUOR VANILLIN (AN ARTIFICIAL FLAVORING) COCOA BUTTER NATURAL VANILLA EXTRACT CORN SYRUP RECONSTITUTED MILK WATER, POWDERED MILK), BUTTER (CREAM, SALT). INVERT SUGAR BHA AS AN ANTIOXIDANT NATURAL FLAVORS, AMMONIUM CARBONATE, CUSTARD WATER CORN SYRUP HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP SUGAR FOOD STARCH-MODIFIED AGAR-AGAR CARAMEL COLOR NATURAL & ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR PALM OIL, PHOSPHORIC ACID POLYSORBATE 80 SODIUM BENZOATE SORBIC ACID, SALT TITANIUM DIOXIDE XANTHAN GUM YELLOW 8 YELLOW 5) ORANGE PULP GLYCERIN CALCIUM SILICATE BOURBONNAIS VANILLA (NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVORS WATER, ETHYL ALCOHOL, CARAMEL COLOR, PARTIALLY

From USDA FoodData Central, label dated 2021-07-29. Labels change; check the package.

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