Archer Farms Fruit Lover's New York-style, Strawberry, Key Lime And Peaches & Cream Cheesecakes Sampler, Fruit Lover's

Target Stores · Cakes, Cupcakes, Snack Cakes · barcode 00085239401262

What stands out

From the label
The ingredients list Yellow No. 6 (Sunset Yellow) and Red No. 40 (Allura Red), which have stricter rules elsewhere. Strictest: West Virginia ban from 2028; EU warning label. Details

Lab testsNo lab has published results for this exact product.
RecallsNo FDA recall lists this barcode.
Additives2 ingredients have stricter rules elsewhere. Strictest: West Virginia ban from 2028; EU warning label. 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 2023-10-26). Recipes change, so check the package you have.

Rules that apply to more than one of these

US (FDA): Allowed Source. Applies to all of them.
EU: Allowed with warning label (Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008, Annex V) Source. Applies to all of them.
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 all of them.
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 all of them.
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 all of them.
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: 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 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.

Yellow No. 6 (Sunset Yellow) (E110)

Only the shared rules above.

Red No. 40 (Allura Red) (E129)

Only the shared rules above.

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 piece, 125 g, from the label):
33% of a toddler's daily limit
8% 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 piece, 125 g, from the label):
9% of a toddler's daily limit
2% 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 piece, 125 g, from the label):
3% of a toddler's daily limit
under 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)

MARGARINE (PALM OIL, WATER, SALT, MONO AND DIGLYCERIDES, ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, ANNATTO [COLOR], CALCIUM DISODIUM EDTA, VITAMIN A PALMITATE ADDED), PEACHES, WATER, CONDENSED SWEETENED MILK (WHOLE MILK, SUGAR), BROWN SUGAR, KEY LIME JUICE (KEY WEST LIME JUICE FROM CONCENTRATE, SODIUM BENZOATE [PRESERVATIVE]), CORNSTARCH, SOYBEAN OIL, HEAVY CREAM (HEAVY CREAM, CARRAGEENAN, MONO AND DIGLYCERIDES), VANILLA, STRAWBERRIES, LEMON JUICE, BUTTER (CREAM, SALT), WATER, CONCENTRATED ORANGE JUICE, PEACH FLAVORING (NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL PEACH FLAVOR, WATER, PROPYLENE GLYCOL, HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP, ALCOHOL, CITRIC ACID, YELLOW 6), STRAWBERRY FLAVOR (WATER, SUGAR, PROPYLENE GLYCOL, CITRIC ACID, ALCOHOL, MALIC ACID, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL STRAWBERRY FLAVOR), GELATIN, CINNAMON, RED 40, VANILLA EXTRACT, CULTURED WHEAT FLOUR, SOY LECITHIN.

From USDA FoodData Central, label dated 2023-10-26. Labels change; check the package.

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