Don Pancho Burrito Style Golden Blend Tortillas
Puentes Brothers Inc. · Mexican Dinner Mixes · barcode 00079341021111
What stands out
- From the label
The ingredients list Partially hydrogenated oils, which has stricter rules elsewhere. Strictest: No longer allowed by FDA. Details
- Lab testsNo lab has published results for this exact product.
- RecallsNo FDA recall lists this barcode.
- Additives1 ingredient has stricter rules elsewhere. Strictest: No longer allowed by FDA. Which
- TypicalFDA's tests of mexican dinner mixes 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.
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 Bleached flour, Interesterified oils.
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
Bleached flour
Only the shared rules above.
Interesterified oils
Only the shared rules above.
Typical for mexican dinner mixes
FDA doesn't test this exact kind of food, so these are the closest foods it does test. Treat them as a rough guide.
- Cadmium: typically 13.1 ppb (FDA, 57 samples, 2017-2020).
A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 1.2 kg (2.6 lb) a day; an adult at about 5.4 kg (12 lb).One serving (1 tortilla, 61 g, from the label):5% of a toddler's daily limit1% of an adult's daily limit
- Arsenic (total): typically 2.04 ppb (FDA, 57 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 Beans, refried, canned: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 4 ppb (2018-2020)
- Lead in Tortilla, corn: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 4 ppb (2017-2020)
- Lead in Tortilla, flour: found in 3 of 27 samples, average 1, highest 17 ppb (2017-2020)
- Cadmium in Beans, refried, canned: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 1.87, highest 2 ppb (2018-2020)
- Cadmium in Tortilla, corn: found in 24 of 27 samples, average 1.53, highest 2.8 ppb (2017-2020)
- Cadmium in Tortilla, flour: found in 27 of 27 samples, average 25.6, highest 31 ppb (2017-2020)
- Mercury in Beans, refried, canned: found in 1 of 3 samples, average 0.8, highest 2.4 ppb (2018-2020)
- Mercury in Tortilla, corn: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
- Mercury in Tortilla, flour: found in 1 of 27 samples, average 0.13, highest 3.4 ppb (2017-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Beans, refried, canned: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 3 ppb (2018-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Tortilla, corn: found in 9 of 27 samples, average 1.81, highest 7.1 ppb (2017-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Tortilla, flour: found in 25 of 27 samples, average 4.63, highest 8.5 ppb (2017-2020)
- Perchlorate in Refried beans, canned: found in 2 of 20 samples, average 0.16, highest 2 ppb (2008-2012)
- Perchlorate in Tortilla, flour: found in 17 of 20 samples, average 7.22, highest 65 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)
BLEACHED WHEAT FLOUR (ENRICHED WITH NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN AND FOLIC ACID), WATER, CORN MASA FLOUR (GROUND YELLOW CORN MASA FLOUR, CELLULOSE GUM, TRACE OF LIME), WHEAT GLUTEN, SALT, DEXTROSE, SODIUM ALUMINUM PHOSPHATE, SODIUM BICARBONATE, OAT FIBER, GUAR GUM, SODIUM STEAROYL LACTYLATE, MONO-DIGLYCERIDES, VEGETABLE OIL SHORTENING (LIQUID AND PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED SOYBEAN OIL, HYDROGENATED COTTONSEED OIL AND/OR INTERESTERIFIED SOYBEAN OIL, HYDROGENATED SOYBEAN OIL), TO MAINTAIN FRESHNESS (FUMARIC ACID, CALCIUM PROPIONATE, SODIUM PROPIONATE, POTASSIUM SORBATE, SORBIC ACID), SODIUM METABISULFITE.
From USDA FoodData Central, label dated 2021-10-28. Labels change; check the package.