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Cakes, Cupcakes, Snack Cakes · barcode 00078742286860

Brownie Trio

Member's Mark · 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 2022-05-23). 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)

CLASSIC FUDGE: BROWNIE MIX (SUGAR, ENRICHED WHEAT FLOUR [WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID], COCOA [PROCESSED WITH ALKALI], DRIED EGG WHITES, CORN SYRUP SOLIDS, CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF THE FOLLOWING: SOYBEAN OIL, SALT, CORN STARCH, LEAVENING [SODIUM BICARBONATE, SODIUM ACID PYROPHOSPHATE], NATURAL FLAVOR, NONFAT DRY MILK, SOY FLOUR), POWDERED SUGAR (SUGAR, CORNSTARCH), MARGARINE (PALM OIL, WATER, SALT, MONO- AND DIGLYCERIDES, NATURAL BUTTER FLAVOR, CITRIC ACID [PRESERVATIVE], BETA-CAROTENE [COLOR], VITAMIN A PALMITATE), FUDGE SAUCE (CORN SYRUP, SWEETENED CONDENSED MILK [MILK, SUGAR], WATER, PALM OIL, SUGAR, COCOA [PROCESSED WITH ALKALI], CONTAINS LESS THAN 2% OF THE FOLLOWING: CARRAGEENAN, CULTURED DEXTROSE, MODIFIED FOOD STARCH, SALT), COCOA (PROCESSED WITH ALKALI), SOYBEAN OIL, CORN SYRUP, NONFAT MILK POWDER, NATURAL FLAVOR, DARK COCOA POWDER (PROCESSED WITH ALKALI), GUM BLEND (GUM ARABIC, XANTHAN GUM, MODIFIED GUM ARABIC), MODIFIED FOOD STARCH. COOKIES & CREAM: BROWNIE MIX (SUGAR, ENRICHED WHEAT FLOUR [WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID], COCOA [PROCESSED WITH ALKALI], DRIED EGG WHITES, CORN SYRUP SOLIDS, CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF THE FOLLOWING: SOYBEAN OIL, SALT, CORN STARCH, LEAVENING [SODIUM BICARBONATE, SODIUM ACID PYROPHOSPHATE], NATURAL FLAVOR, NONFAT DRY MILK, SOY FLOUR), WHITE ICING (SUGAR, HIGH OLEIC SOYBEAN OIL, HYDROGENATED SOYBEAN AND COTTONSEED OILS, WATER, CORN SYRUP, CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF THE FOLLOWING: MONO- AND DIGLYCERIDES, SALT, NATURAL FLAVOR, TITANIUM DIOXIDE [COLOR], POTASSIUM SORBATE [PRESERVATIVE], CITRIC ACID, POLYSORBATE 60, GUAR GUM), COOKIE TOPPING (SUGAR, ENRICHED FLOUR [WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMIN MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID] VEGETABLE OIL [SOYBEAN OIL AND PALM OIL WITH TBHQ FOR FRESHNESS], COCOA PROCESSED WITH ALKALI, INVERT SUGAR, CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF DEGERMINATED YELLOW CORN FLOUR, CORNSTARCH, CHOCOLATE, SALT, LEAVENING [BAKING SODA, MONOCALCIUM PHOSPHATE], ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, SOY LECITHIN, WHEY), SEMISWEET CHOCOLATE (SUGAR, UNSWEETENED CHOCOLATE, COCOA BUTTER, SOY LECITHIN, NATURAL FLAVOR), SOYBEAN OIL. CARAMEL DRIZZLED: BROWNIE MIX (SUGAR, ENRICHED WHEAT FLOUR [WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID], COCOA [PROCESSED WITH ALKALI], DRIED EGG WHITES, CORN SYRUP SOLIDS, CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF THE FOLLOWING: SOYBEAN OIL, SALT, CORN STARCH, LEAVENING [SODIUM BICARBONATE, SODIUM ACID PYROPHOSPHATE], NATURAL FLAVOR, NONFAT DRY MILK, SOY FLOUR), POWDERED SUGAR (SUGAR, CORNSTARCH), CHOCOLATE CURLS (SUGAR, CHOCOLATE, COCOA BUTTER, SOY LECITHIN, NATURAL FLAVOR), CARAMEL (CORN SYRUP, SWEETENED CONDENSED MILK [MILK, SKIM MILK, SUGAR], WATER, SUGAR, PALM OIL, MODIFIED FOOD STARCH, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVORS, SODIUM CITRATE, SODIUM ALGINATE, MONO- AND DIGLYCERIDES, SOY LECITHIN, SALT, POTASSIUM SORBATE [PRESERVATIVE], SODIUM PHOSPHATE, TARTARIC ACID), FUDGE SAUCE (CORN SYRUP, SWEETENED CONDENSED MILK [MILK, SUGAR], WATER, PALM OIL, SUGAR, COCOA [PROCESSED WITH ALKALI], CONTAINS LESS THAN 2% OF THE FOLLOWING: CARRAGEENAN, CULTURED DEXTROSE, MODIFIED FOOD STARCH, SALT), MARGARINE (PALM OIL, WATER, SALT, MONO- AND DIGLYCERIDES, NATURAL BUTTER FLAVOR, CITRIC ACID [PRESERVATIVE], BETA-CAROTENE [COLOR], VITAMIN A PALMITATE), COCOA (PROCESSED WITH ALKALI), SOYBEAN OIL, CORN SYRUP, NONFAT MILK POWDER, NATURAL FLAVOR, DARK COCOA POWDER (PROCESSED WITH ALKALI), GUM BLEND (GUM ARABIC, XANTHAN GUM, MODIFIED GUM ARABIC), MODIFIED FOOD STARCH.

From USDA FoodData Central, label dated 2022-05-23. Labels change; check the package.

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