Freshness Guaranteed Frosted Sugar Cookies, Frosted Sugar
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. · Cookies & Biscuits · barcode 00194346001248
What stands out
- From the label
The ingredients list Yellow No. 5 (tartrazine), Blue No. 1 (Brilliant Blue), 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.
- Additives4 ingredients have stricter rules elsewhere. Strictest: West Virginia ban from 2028; EU warning label. Which
- TypicalFDA's tests of cookies & biscuits show what's typical. See levels
Additives with restrictions somewhere
From the ingredient list on file (label data dated 2022-12-22). Recipes change, so check the package you have.
Rules that apply to more than one of these
- US (FDA): Allowed Source. Applies to Yellow No. 5 (tartrazine), Blue No. 1 (Brilliant Blue), Yellow No. 6 (Sunset Yellow), Red No. 40 (Allura Red).
- EU: Allowed with warning label (Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008, Annex V) Source. Applies to Yellow No. 5 (tartrazine), Yellow No. 6 (Sunset Yellow), Red No. 40 (Allura Red).
- 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 Yellow No. 5 (tartrazine), Blue No. 1 (Brilliant Blue), Yellow No. 6 (Sunset Yellow), Red No. 40 (Allura Red).
- 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 Yellow No. 5 (tartrazine), Blue No. 1 (Brilliant Blue), Yellow No. 6 (Sunset Yellow), Red No. 40 (Allura Red).
- 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 Yellow No. 5 (tartrazine), Blue No. 1 (Brilliant Blue), Yellow No. 6 (Sunset Yellow), Red No. 40 (Allura Red).
- 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 Yellow No. 5 (tartrazine), Blue No. 1 (Brilliant Blue), Yellow No. 6 (Sunset Yellow), Red No. 40 (Allura Red).
- 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. 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
Yellow No. 6 (Sunset Yellow) (E110)
Only the shared rules above.
Red No. 40 (Allura Red) (E129)
Only the shared rules above.
Bleached flour
- US (FDA): Allowed FDA allows bleached flour. Source
Typical for cookies & biscuits
What FDA found when it bought and tested this kind of food across the US. These are not tests of this product.
- Lead: typically 5.33 ppb (FDA, 9 samples, 2018-2020).
A toddler reaches FDA's daily limit at about 310 g (11 oz) a day; an adult at about 1.3 kg (2.9 lb).One serving (2 cookies, 30 g, from the label):10% of a toddler's daily limit2% of an adult's daily limit
- Cadmium: typically 26.7 ppb (FDA, 9 samples, 2018-2020).
A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 550 g (19 oz) a day; an adult at about 2.6 kg (5.7 lb).One serving (2 cookies, 30 g, from the label):5% of a toddler's daily limit1% of an adult's daily limit
- Arsenic (total): typically 3.7 ppb (FDA, 9 samples, 2018-2020). No US agency limit we can cite.
- Mercury, Perchlorate: usually below 1 ppb, the lab's limit, in FDA's samples.
FDA samples behind these numbers
- Lead in Cookies, chocolate chip: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 7.57, highest 10 ppb (2018-2020)
- Lead in Cookies, sandwich, with crème filling: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 13.4, highest 24 ppb (2018-2020)
- Lead in Cookies, sugar: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 4 ppb (2018-2020)
- Cadmium in Cookies, chocolate chip: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 48.3, highest 68 ppb (2018-2020)
- Cadmium in Cookies, sandwich, with crème filling: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 18.3, highest 25 ppb (2018-2020)
- Cadmium in Cookies, sugar: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 15.7, highest 18 ppb (2018-2020)
- Mercury in Cookies, chocolate chip: found in 1 of 3 samples, average 0.57, highest 1.7 ppb (2018-2020)
- Mercury in Cookies, sandwich, with crème filling: found in 1 of 3 samples, average 0.53, highest 1.6 ppb (2018-2020)
- Mercury in Cookies, sugar: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Cookies, chocolate chip: found in 2 of 3 samples, average 3.43, highest 5.2 ppb (2018-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Cookies, sandwich, with crème filling: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 5.6, highest 7.2 ppb (2018-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Cookies, sugar: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 3 ppb (2018-2020)
- Perchlorate in Chocolate chip cookies: found in 6 of 20 samples, average 0.53, highest 3 ppb (2008-2012)
- Perchlorate in Sandwich cookies w/ creme filling: found in 5 of 20 samples, average 0.6, highest 3 ppb (2008-2012)
- Perchlorate in Sugar cookies: found in 13 of 19 samples, average 3.07, highest 15.4 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)
SUGAR, ENRICHED BLEACHED FLOUR (WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID), MARGARINE (PALM OIL, WATER, SOYBEAN OIL, SALT, MONO-AND DIGLYCERIDES, ANNATTO [COLOR], CALCIUM DISODIUM EDTA [PRESERVATIVE], ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, VITAMIN A PALMITATE), WATER, CONTAINS LESS THAN 2% OF CORN STARCH, RICE FLOUR, EGGS, LEAVENING (SODIUM ACID PYROPHOSPHATE, BAKING SODA, MONOCALCIUM PHOSPHATE), CORN SYRUP SOLIDS, SOYBEAN OIL, NONFAT DRY MILK, YELLOW 5 LAKE, PALM OIL, PALM KERNEL OIL, POLYSORBATE 60, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVORS, BLUE 1 LAKE, CELLULOSE GUM, SOY LECITHIN (EMULSIFIER), CARRAGEENAN, SODIUM CASEINATE, SALT, MONO- AND DIGLYCERIDES, MILK PROTEIN CONCENTRATE, SUNFLOWER LECITHIN (EMULSIFIER), YELLOW 6, RED 40, YELLOW 5, BLUE 1.
From USDA FoodData Central, label dated 2022-12-22. Labels change; check the package.