Freshness Guaranteed 1/4 Sheet White Cake With Cream Cheese Icing, White With Cream Cheese Icing

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. · Cakes, Cupcakes, Snack Cakes · barcode 00078742017624

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 cakes, cupcakes, snack cakes show what's typical. See levels

Additives with restrictions somewhere

From the ingredient list on file (label data dated 2023-06-29). 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

Bleached flour

US (FDA): Allowed FDA allows bleached flour. Source
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

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 (1/18 cake, 81 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 (1/18 cake, 81 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 (1/18 cake, 81 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 BLEACHED WHEAT FLOUR WEAT FLOUR MACIN, REDUCED IRON, THAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAN, FOLICACID, CREAM CHEESE MILK, CREAM SALT CARAB BEAN GUM, BACTERIAL CULTURE, VEGETABLE SHORTENING PALM AND SOYBEAN OILS, MONO-AND DIGLYCERIDES, POLYSORBATE 60, PRESERVATIVE (TBHQ), EGG WHITES, MARGARINE (PALMOL, WATER SOYBEAN OIL, SALT, MONO-AND DIGLYCERIDES, ANNATTO (FOR COLORI PRESERVATIVE CALCIUM DISODIUM EDTAL, ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR VITAMINA PALMITATE, WHITE CHOCOLATE CURLS (SUGAR, COCOA BUTTER, WHOLE MILK POWDER, SKIM MILK, WHEY POWDER, LACTOSE, SOY LECITHIN [AN EMULSIFIER], NATURAL FLANDRI, SOYBEAN OIL EGGS, CONTAMS LESS THAN 2% OF THE FOLLOWING LEAVENING (SODIUM ACID PYROPHOSPHATE, BAKING SODA MONOCALCIUM PHOSPHATEL WHEAT STARCH, MODIFIED TAPIOCA AND CORN STARCH, PROPYLENE GLYCOL MONO-AND DIESTERS OF FATS AND FATTY ACIDS, WHEY SALT, DEXTROSE, CRISPED CEREALS WHEAT FLOUR SUGAR, MALT FLOUR WHEAT STARCH,BAKING SODA, SALT COCOA BUTTER, NATURAL FLAVOR, MONO-AND DIGLYCERIDES NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLANDR, SODIUM CAGEINATE, WHOLE MILK POWDER, COCOA BUTTER, WHEAT FLOUR, SOY LECITHIN GUAR GUM, POLYSORBATE 60, XANTHAN GUM, SODIUM STEAROYL LACTYLATE, RICE FLOUR, DISODIUM PHOSPHATE, SHELLAC, ASOOPEICADO GUMARABIC, TITANIUM DIOXIDE FOR COLOR, CITRIC ACID, NATURAL FLAVOR GLUCOSE SYRUP, GUM ARABIC.

From USDA FoodData Central, label dated 2023-06-29. Labels change; check the package.

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