Spoon Scout

Cakes, Cupcakes, Snack Cakes · barcode 00078742201153

Apple Danish, Apple

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

Additives with restrictions somewhere

From the ingredient list on file (label data dated 2023-04-27). 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

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.

FDA samples behind these numbers
  • Lead in Cake, chocolate with chocolate icing: found in 27 of 27, average 8.92, highest 16 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Lead in Cake, white with white icing: found in 9 of 27, average 2.56, highest 17 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Cadmium in Cake, chocolate with chocolate icing: found in 27 of 27, average 17.6, highest 40 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Cadmium in Cake, white with white icing: found in 27 of 27, average 4.13, highest 6.4 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Mercury in Cake, chocolate with chocolate icing: found in 9 of 27, average 0.45, highest 1.9 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Mercury in Cake, white with white icing: found in 0 of 27, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Arsenic (total) in Cake, chocolate with chocolate icing: found in 25 of 27, average 3.6, highest 4.6 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Arsenic (total) in Cake, white with white icing: found in 10 of 27, average 1.72, highest 7.4 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Perchlorate in Cake, chocolate w/ icing: found in 12 of 20, average 2.76, highest 14 ppb (2008-2012)
  • Perchlorate in Cake, white w/ icing (formerly yellow cake): found in 12 of 20, 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)

ENRICHED FLOUR {WHEAT FLOUR, MALTED BARLEY FLOUR, NIACIN, FERROUS SULFATE OR REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID}, WATER, SUGAR, PALM OIL, APPLES {SULFITE TREATED TO RETAIN COLOR}, CONTAINS 2% OR LESS: YEAST, SOYBEAN OIL, MODIFIED CORNSTARCH, CORN SYRUP, DEXTROSE, MONO AND DIGLYCERIDES, SALT, EGG, CORNSTARCH, WHEY, MONOCALCIUM PHOSPHATE, BROWN SUGAR, CELLULOSE GUM, CINNAMON, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, MOLASSES, MALIC ACID, CALCIUM CARBONATE, DEFATTED SOY FLOUR, MINERAL OIL, SOY LECITHIN, GUAR GUM, VITAL WHEAT GLUTEN, SODIUM STEAROYL LACTYLATE, CALCIUM SULFATE, SODIUM ACID PYROPHOSPHATE, BAKING SODA, ASCORBIC ACID, AMMONIUM SULFATE, AGAR, COLOR {BETA CAROTENE, TITANIUM DIOXIDE), NONFAT DRY MILK TOCOPHEROL, ENZYMES, CITRIC ACID, FUMARIC ACID, NUTMEG, SODIUM HEXAMETAPHOSPHATE, PRESERVATIVE {CALCIUM PROPIONATE, SODIUM PROPIONATE, SORBIC ACID, POTASSIUM SORBATE, SODIUM BENZOATE}, VITAMIN A PALMITATE.

From USDA FoodData Central, label dated 2023-04-27. Labels change; check the package.

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