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Puddings & Custards · barcode 00096938899021

Chocolate Chip Mousse, Chocolate Chip

Ron's Home Style Foods · Ron's Home Style Foods, 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 puddings & custards show what's typical. See levels

Additives with restrictions somewhere

From the ingredient list on file (label data dated 2023-11-16). 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 puddings & custards

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 Pudding, ready-to-eat, chocolate: found in 1 of 3, average 1.43, highest 4.3 ppb (2018-2020)
  • Cadmium in Pudding, ready-to-eat, chocolate: found in 3 of 3, average 4.87, highest 6.4 ppb (2018-2020)
  • Mercury in Pudding, ready-to-eat, chocolate: found in 0 of 3, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
  • Arsenic (total) in Pudding, ready-to-eat, chocolate: found in 1 of 3, average 1.07, highest 3.2 ppb (2018-2020)

"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)

CHOCOLATE WHIP'N TOP (WATER, HYDROGENATED PALM KERNEL OIL, SUGAR, COCOA ALKALI PROCESSED, CONTAINS LESS THAN 2% OF THE FOLLOWING: SODIUM CASEINATE (A MILK DERIVATIVE), POLYSORBATE 60, CARBOHYDRATE GUM, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, SALT, POLYGLYCEROL ESTERS OF FATTY ACIDS, SOY LECITHIN, SODIUM CITRATE, SORBITAN MONOSTEARATE, XANTHAN GUM), CHOCOLATE BAVARIAN CREME (HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP, CORN SYRUP, WATER, FOOD STARCH - MODIFIED, DEXTROSE, CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF: CITRC ACID, COCOA POWDER, COCOA PROCESSED WITH ALKALI, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, PALM OIL, PRESERVATIVE (POTASSIUM S RATE), PROPYLENE GLYCOL, SALT, SULFITES, TITANIUM DIOXIDE (COLOR), UNSWEETENED CHOCOLATE), CHOCOLATE CHIPS (SEMI-SWEET CHOCOLATE( SUGAR, CHOCOLATE, COCOA BUTTER, MILK FAT, SOY LECITHIN, VANILLIN, NATURAL FLAVOR, MILK), POTASSIUM SORBATE (PRESERVATIVE), SODIUM BENZOATE (PRESERVATIVE)

From USDA FoodData Central, label dated 2023-11-16. Labels change; check the package.

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