Lender's Very Berry Bagel Shop Bagels, Very Berry

Pinnacle Foods Group LLC · Breads & Buns · barcode 00076800006641

What stands out

From the label
The ingredients list Partially hydrogenated oils, Red No. 40 (Allura Red), Blue No. 2 (indigotine) and Blue No. 1 (Brilliant Blue), 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 breads & buns show what's typical. See levels
Others3 other breads & buns products have lab results. Compare them

Additives with restrictions somewhere

From the ingredient list on file (label data dated 2022-12-22). 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.
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), Blue No. 2 (indigotine), Blue No. 1 (Brilliant Blue).
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), Blue No. 2 (indigotine), Blue No. 1 (Brilliant Blue).
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), Blue No. 2 (indigotine), Blue No. 1 (Brilliant Blue).
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), Blue No. 2 (indigotine), Blue No. 1 (Brilliant Blue).
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), Blue No. 2 (indigotine), Blue No. 1 (Brilliant Blue).
EU: Allowed (Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008) Source. Applies to Blue No. 2 (indigotine), Blue No. 1 (Brilliant Blue).

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)

EU: Allowed with warning label Allowed as E129, 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. 2 (indigotine) (E132)

Only the shared rules above.

Blue No. 1 (Brilliant Blue) (E133)

Only the shared rules above.

Typical for breads & buns

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

Cadmium: typically 27.5 ppb (FDA, 108 samples, 2017-2020). A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 540 g (19 oz) a day; an adult at about 2.5 kg (5.5 lb).
One serving (1 bagel, 81 g, from the label):
15% of a toddler's daily limit
3% of an adult's daily limit
Arsenic (total): typically 6.18 ppb (FDA, 108 samples, 2017-2020). No US agency limit we can cite.
Lead, Mercury: usually below 4 ppb, the lab's limit, in FDA's samples.

FDA samples behind these numbers

Lead in Bread, white roll/bun (hamburger/hotdog): found in 5 of 27 samples, average 0.91, highest 6.7 ppb (2017-2020)
Lead in Bread, white, enriched, pre-sliced: found in 9 of 27 samples, average 2.28, highest 23 ppb (2017-2020)
Lead in Bread, whole wheat, pre-sliced: found in 20 of 27 samples, average 3.88, highest 7.3 ppb (2017-2020)
Lead in English muffin, plain, toasted: found in 3 of 27 samples, average 0.79, highest 9.7 ppb (2017-2020)
Cadmium in Bread, white roll/bun (hamburger/hotdog): found in 27 of 27 samples, average 24.6, highest 37 ppb (2017-2020)
Cadmium in Bread, white, enriched, pre-sliced: found in 27 of 27 samples, average 27.4, highest 37 ppb (2017-2020)
Cadmium in Bread, whole wheat, pre-sliced: found in 27 of 27 samples, average 29.9, highest 42 ppb (2017-2020)
Cadmium in English muffin, plain, toasted: found in 27 of 27 samples, average 28.6, highest 39 ppb (2017-2020)
Mercury in Bread, white roll/bun (hamburger/hotdog): found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
Mercury in Bread, white, enriched, pre-sliced: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
Mercury in Bread, whole wheat, pre-sliced: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
Mercury in English muffin, plain, toasted: found in 1 of 27 samples, average 0.04, highest 1 ppb (2017-2020)
Arsenic (total) in Bread, white roll/bun (hamburger/hotdog): found in 27 of 27 samples, average 5.74, highest 9.3 ppb (2017-2020)
Arsenic (total) in Bread, white, enriched, pre-sliced: found in 26 of 27 samples, average 5.06, highest 9 ppb (2017-2020)
Arsenic (total) in Bread, whole wheat, pre-sliced: found in 27 of 27 samples, average 10.3, highest 18 ppb (2017-2020)
Arsenic (total) in English muffin, plain, toasted: found in 26 of 27 samples, average 5.06, highest 10 ppb (2017-2020)
Perchlorate in Bread, white, enriched: found in 12 of 20 samples, average 2.55, highest 9 ppb (2008-2012)
Perchlorate in Bread, whole wheat: found in 15 of 20 samples, average 2.7, highest 7 ppb (2008-2012)
Perchlorate in English muffin, plain, toasted: found in 15 of 20 samples, average 5.36, highest 34.6 ppb (2008-2012)

Left out of the summary above: Perchlorate. FDA measured it in only some of these foods, so the result describes those foods, not the whole kind.

"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)

ENRICHED WHEAT FLOUR (FLOUR, ENZYME, ASCORBIC ACID [DOUGH CONDITIONER], NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID), WATER, BROWN SUGAR, HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP, STRAWBERRY FLAVORED BITS (SUGAR, CORN SYRUP, CORN CEREAL, PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED VEGETABLE OIL (COTTONSEED AND/OR SOYBEAN), MODIFIED FOOD STARCH, CITRIC ACID, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVORS, RED 40, AND BLUE 2), YEAST, BLUEBERRY FLAVORED BITS (SUGAR, CORN SYRUP, MODIFIED FOOD STARCH [CORN], CORN CEREAL, COTTONSEED FIBER, PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED VEGETABLE OIL [COTTONSEED AND/OR SOYBEAN], NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, RED 40 LAKE, BLUE 2 LAKE, AND BLUE 1 LAKE), CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF: STRAWBERRY CONCENTRATE, VITAL WHEAT GLUTEN, SALT, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL STRAWBERRY FLAVOR, SOYBEAN OIL, MONO- AND DIGLYCERIDES, SORBIC ACID, DISTILLED MONOGLYCERIDES, PRESERVATIVES (CALCIUM PROPIONATE), XANTHAN GUM, DOUGH CONDITIONERS (CALCIUM SULFATE, L-CYSTEINE), ENZYMES (ENZYMES, WHEAT GLUTEN, MONOGLYCERIDES), EGG YOLK POWDER, RED 40 LAKE (COLOR), YELLOW CORN MEAL.

From USDA FoodData Central, label dated 2022-12-22. Labels change; check the package.

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