Cookies & Biscuits · barcode 00078742099316
The Bakery, Lemon Gooey Butter Bar
The Bakery · Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
- Lab testsNo lab has published results for this exact product.
- RecallsNo FDA recall lists this barcode.
- Additives1 ingredient is banned or unapproved somewhere. Which
- TypicalFDA's tests of cookies & biscuits show what's typical. See levels
Additives with restrictions somewhere
From the ingredient list on file (label data dated 2021-10-28). Recipes change, so check the package you have.
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
- 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
Bleached flour
- US (FDA): Allowed FDA allows bleached flour. Source
- 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
- 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 cookies & biscuits
What FDA found when it bought and tested this kind of food across the US. These are not tests of this product.
- Lead: typically 5.33 ppb (FDA, 9 samples, 2018-2020).
A toddler reaches FDA's daily limit at about 310 g (11 oz) a day; an adult at about 1.3 kg (2.9 lb).One serving (100 g (3½ oz)):32% of a toddler's daily limit8% of a adult's daily limit
- Cadmium: typically 26.7 ppb (FDA, 9 samples, 2018-2020).
A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 550 g (19 oz) a day; an adult at about 2.6 kg (5.7 lb).One serving (100 g (3½ oz)):18% of a toddler's daily limit4% of a adult's daily limit
- Arsenic (total): typically 3.7 ppb (FDA, 9 samples, 2018-2020). No US agency limit we can cite.
- Mercury, Perchlorate: usually below 1 ppb, the lab's limit, in FDA's samples.
FDA samples behind these numbers
- Lead in Cookies, chocolate chip: found in 3 of 3, average 7.57, highest 10 ppb (2018-2020)
- Lead in Cookies, sandwich, with crème filling: found in 3 of 3, average 13.4, highest 24 ppb (2018-2020)
- Lead in Cookies, sugar: found in 0 of 3, all below 4 ppb (2018-2020)
- Cadmium in Cookies, chocolate chip: found in 3 of 3, average 48.3, highest 68 ppb (2018-2020)
- Cadmium in Cookies, sandwich, with crème filling: found in 3 of 3, average 18.3, highest 25 ppb (2018-2020)
- Cadmium in Cookies, sugar: found in 3 of 3, average 15.7, highest 18 ppb (2018-2020)
- Mercury in Cookies, chocolate chip: found in 1 of 3, average 0.57, highest 1.7 ppb (2018-2020)
- Mercury in Cookies, sandwich, with crème filling: found in 1 of 3, average 0.53, highest 1.6 ppb (2018-2020)
- Mercury in Cookies, sugar: found in 0 of 3, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Cookies, chocolate chip: found in 2 of 3, average 3.43, highest 5.2 ppb (2018-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Cookies, sandwich, with crème filling: found in 3 of 3, average 5.6, highest 7.2 ppb (2018-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Cookies, sugar: found in 0 of 3, all below 3 ppb (2018-2020)
- Perchlorate in Chocolate chip cookies: found in 6 of 20, average 0.53, highest 3 ppb (2008-2012)
- Perchlorate in Sandwich cookies w/ creme filling: found in 5 of 20, average 0.6, highest 3 ppb (2008-2012)
- Perchlorate in Sugar cookies: found in 13 of 19, average 3.07, highest 15.4 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)
CAKE BASE (SUGAR, ENRICHED FLOUR BLEACHED [WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID], NONFAT MILK, PROPYLENE GLYCOL MONO- AND DIESTERS OF FATTY ACIDS, MONO- AND DIGLYCERIDES, FOOD STARCH-MODIFIED, LEAVENING [SODIUM ALUMINIUM PHOSPHATE], PALM OIL, EGG WHITES, DEXTROSE, SALT, SOY LECITHIN, POLYSORBATE 60, SOYBEAN OIL, XANTHAN GUM, SODIUM STEAROYL LACTYLATE, WATER, GUAR GUM, CELLULOSE GUM, NATURAL FLAVOR, ACACIA GUM, CITRIC ACID), POWERED SUGAR (SUGAR, CORN STARCH), SUGAR, EGG, UNSALTED BUTTER (PASTEURIZED CREAM, NATURAL FLAVORS), CREAM CHEESE (PASTEURIZED MILK AND CREAM, CHEESE CULTURE, SALT, STABILIZERS [XANTHAN AND/OR CAROB BEAN GUM AND/OR GUAR GUM]), LEMON JUICE, ENRICHED FLOUR (WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID), FOOD STARCH-MODIFIED, DONUT SUGAR (DEXTROSE, FOOD STARCH-MODIFIED, PALM OIL, TITANIUM DIOXIDE [COLOR], HYDROGENATED COTTONSEED OIL, CALCIUM PROPIONATE [PRESERVATIVE], CORN STARCH, ARTFICIAL FLAVOR), NATURAL FLAVOR, PAN SPRAY (SOY LECITHIN, [CONTAINS ONE OR MORE OF THE FOLLOWING: CANOLA OIL, PALM OIL, SOYBEAN OIL, NATURAL FLAVOR, MINERAL OIL]), BETA-CAROTENE (COLOR).
From USDA FoodData Central, label dated 2021-10-28. Labels change; check the package.