Atkins Cashew Trail Mix Snack Bars, Cashew Trail Mix
Atkins Nutritionals, Inc. · Snack, Energy & Granola Bars · barcode 00637480025850
What stands out
- Recall
1 FDA recall names this barcode (2016, closed): possible Listeria. Details
- Lab testsNo lab has published results for this exact product.
- Recalls1 FDA recall names this barcode (2016, closed). Details
- Additives1 ingredient has a label or school-food rule in some states. Which
- TypicalFDA's tests of snack, energy & granola bars show what's typical. See levels
FDA recalls
- 2016-07-27 · Class I · Terminated Atkins Nutritionals is recalling certain bar products because they contain or may have come in contact with equipment that processed product containing sunflower seeds distributed by supplier SunOpta Inc. that have the potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.Atkins Nutritionals, Inc.: Cashew Trail Mix Bar 6x5, UPC: 637480025850, Case UPC: 637480029858. Packaging: Outer paper carton containing individually wrapped bars, Ambient Storage Recall F-1718-2016 details
Additives with restrictions somewhere
From the ingredient list on file (label data dated 2021-10-28). Recipes change, so check the package you have.
Sucralose (E955)
- US (FDA): Allowed FDA approved it as a sweetener. Source
- EU: Allowed On the EU's list of approved additives as E955. (Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008) Source
- 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
- 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
Typical for snack, energy & granola bars
What FDA found when it bought and tested this kind of food across the US. These are not tests of this product.
- Cadmium: typically 7.4 ppb (FDA, 3 samples, 2018-2020).
A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 1.8 kg (4 lb) a day; an adult at about 8.3 kg (18 lb).One serving (1 bar, 40 g, from the label):2% of a toddler's daily limitunder 1% of an adult's daily limit
- Arsenic (total): typically 20 ppb (FDA, 3 samples, 2018-2020). 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 Granola bar: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 4 ppb (2018-2020)
- Cadmium in Granola bar: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 8.47, highest 11 ppb (2018-2020)
- Mercury in Granola bar: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Granola bar: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 21.7, highest 28 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)
NUT BLEND (ROASTED PEANUTS [PEANUTS, SOYBEAN OIL OR CANOLA OIL, SALT], ALMONDS, ROASTED CASHEWS [CASHEWS, VEGETABLE OIL {PEANUT, COTTONSEED, SOYBEAN AND/OR SUNFLOWER OILS}]), CHOCOLATE FLAVORED COATING (MALTITOL, PALM KERNEL OIL, POLYDEXTROSE, COCOA POWDER, NONFAT DRY MILK SOLIDS, NATURAL FLAVOR, SOY LECITHIN, SALT, SUCRALOSE), PRETZEL STICKS (SOY PROTEIN ISOLATE, CORN STARCH, SESAME SEEDS, PALM OIL, TAPIOCA STARCH, INULIN, PEA FIBER, RICE SYRUP, XANTHAN GUM, SALT, BAKING POWDER, YEAST), CHOCOLATE FLAVORED CHIPS (MALTITOL, CHOCOLATE LIQUOR [PROCESSED WITH ALKALI], COCOA BUTTER, SOY LECITHIN, VANILLA EXTRACT), POLYDEXTROSE, MALTITOL SYRUP, RAISINS, SOY PROTEIN ISOLATE, CONTAINS LESS THAN 2% OF: WATER, PALM KERNEL AND PALM OIL, GLYCERIN, SALT, MIXED TOCOPHEROLS AND TBHQ (TO PRESERVE FRESHNESS), SUCRALOSE.
From USDA FoodData Central, label dated 2021-10-28. Labels change; check the package.