Favorite Day Vanilla Petite Bundt Cakes With Buttercream-style Icing, Vanilla
Target Stores · Cakes, Cupcakes, Snack Cakes · barcode 00085239333174
What stands out
- From the label
The ingredients list Titanium dioxide, Red No. 40 (Allura Red), Yellow No. 6 (Sunset Yellow), Yellow No. 5 (tartrazine) and Blue No. 1 (Brilliant Blue), which have stricter rules elsewhere. Strictest: Not allowed in the EU since 2022; West Virginia ban from 2028. Details
- Lab testsNo lab has published results for this exact product.
- RecallsNo FDA recall lists this barcode.
- Additives5 ingredients have stricter rules elsewhere. Strictest: Not allowed in the EU since 2022; West Virginia ban from 2028. 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 2023-07-13). Recipes change, so check the package you have.
Rules that apply to more than one of these
- US (FDA): Allowed Source. Applies to Titanium dioxide, Red No. 40 (Allura Red), Yellow No. 6 (Sunset Yellow), Yellow No. 5 (tartrazine), Blue No. 1 (Brilliant Blue).
- 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.
- EU: Allowed with warning label (Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008, Annex V) Source. Applies to Red No. 40 (Allura Red), Yellow No. 6 (Sunset Yellow), Yellow No. 5 (tartrazine).
- California: Banned in school meals from 2027-12-31 Banned in food and drinks offered in California public schools from December 31, 2027. (AB 2316 (2024)) Source. Applies to Red No. 40 (Allura Red), Yellow No. 6 (Sunset Yellow), Yellow No. 5 (tartrazine), Blue No. 1 (Brilliant Blue).
- West Virginia: Banned from 2028-01-01 Food containing it is treated as adulterated in West Virginia from January 1, 2028. (HB 2354 (2025)) Source. Applies to Red No. 40 (Allura Red), Yellow No. 6 (Sunset Yellow), Yellow No. 5 (tartrazine), Blue No. 1 (Brilliant Blue).
- West Virginia: Banned in school meals from 2025-08-01 Banned in West Virginia school meals since August 1, 2025. (HB 2354 (2025)) Source. Applies to Red No. 40 (Allura Red), Yellow No. 6 (Sunset Yellow), Yellow No. 5 (tartrazine), Blue No. 1 (Brilliant Blue).
- Louisiana: Banned in school meals from 2028-2029 school year Banned in Louisiana school food from the 2028-2029 school year (concession stands and vending machines exempt). (SB 14, Act 463 (2025)) Source. Applies to Red No. 40 (Allura Red), Yellow No. 6 (Sunset Yellow), Yellow No. 5 (tartrazine), Blue No. 1 (Brilliant Blue).
- 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 Red No. 40 (Allura Red), Yellow No. 6 (Sunset Yellow), Yellow No. 5 (tartrazine), Blue No. 1 (Brilliant Blue), Bleached flour.
Titanium dioxide (E171)
- 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
Red No. 40 (Allura Red) (E129)
Only the shared rules above.
Yellow No. 6 (Sunset Yellow) (E110)
Only the shared rules above.
Yellow No. 5 (tartrazine) (E102)
Only the shared rules above.
Blue No. 1 (Brilliant Blue) (E133)
- EU: Allowed On the EU's list of approved additives as E133. (Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008) Source
Bleached flour
- US (FDA): Allowed FDA allows bleached flour. 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 cake, 43 g, from the label):11% of a toddler's daily limit3% 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 cake, 43 g, from the label):3% of a toddler's daily limitunder 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 cake, 43 g, from the label):under 1% of a toddler's daily limitunder 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)
CAKE BASE (BLEACHED ENRICHED FLOUR [WHEAT FLOUR, NACIN, IRON, THIAMINE MONONITIRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID], SUGAR, FOOD STARCH-MODIFIED, DEXTROSE, SOYBEAN OIL, CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF: CELLULOSE GUM, DEFATTED SOY FLOUR, EGGS, LEAVENING [BAKING SODA, MONOCALCIUM PHOSPHATE, SODIUM ALUMINUM PHOSPHATE], MONOAND DIGLYCERIDES, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, PROPYLENE GLYCOL MONO- AND DIESTERS OF FATTY ACIDS, SALT, SODIUM STEAROYL LACTYLATE, VITAL WHEAT GLUTEN, WHEY, XANTHAN GUM), WHITE CREME ICING (SUGAR, PALM OIL, HIGH OLEIC SUNFLOWER AND/OR CANOLA OIL, WATER, HYDROGENATED COTTONSEED OIL, CORNSTARCH, CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF: ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, CITRIC ACID, MONO- AND DIGLYCERIDES, POLYSORBATE 60, PRESERVATIVES [POTASSIUM SORBATE, SORBIC ACID], SALT, TITANIUM DIOXIDE [COLOR]), WATER, EGGS, SOYBEAN OIL, RED COLORED NONPAREIL CANDY (SUGAR, CORN STARCH, VEGETABLE OIL [PALM, PALM KERNEL), SOY LECITHIN, RED 40 LAKE, DEXTRIN, CONFECTIONER'S GLAZE, YELLOW 6 LAKE, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, CARNAUBA WAX), GREEN COLORED NONPAREIL CANDY (SUGAR, CORN STARCH, VEGETABLE OIL [PALM AND PALM KERNEL], DEXTRINE, YELLOW 5 LAKE, SOY LECITHIN, BLUE 1 LAKE, CONFECTIONER'S GLAZE, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, CARNAUBA WAX), ICING STABILIZER (CALCIUM CARBONATE, SUGAR, CALCIUM SULFATE, AGAR-AGAR, DEXTROSE, MONOSODIUM PHOSPHATE, CAROB BEAN GUM, CORNSTARCH), SHORTENING (SOYBEAN OIL, HYDROGENATED SOYBEAN OIL, HYDROGENATED COTTONSEED OIL), SALT, VANILLA EXTRACT, SODIUM PROPIONATE.
From USDA FoodData Central, label dated 2023-07-13. Labels change; check the package.