Popcorn, Peanuts, Seeds & Related Snacks · barcode 00644823006643
Chocolate Cookie Crunch, Chocolate Cookie
South Bend Chocolate Company · The South Bend Chocolate Company
- 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 popcorn, peanuts, seeds & related snacks show what's typical. See levels
Additives with restrictions somewhere
From the ingredient list on file (label data dated 2021-10-28). 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 popcorn, peanuts, seeds & related snacks
What FDA found when it bought and tested this kind of food across the US. These are not tests of this product.
- Cadmium: typically 116 ppb (FDA, 9 samples, 2018-2020).
A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 120 g (4.2 oz) a day; an adult at about 550 g (19 oz).One serving (1 teaspoon):3% of a toddler's daily limitunder 1% of a adult's daily limit
- Lead, Mercury, Arsenic (total), Perchlorate: usually below 4 ppb, the lab's limit, in FDA's samples.
FDA samples behind these numbers
- Lead in Peanuts, dry roasted, salted: found in 0 of 3, all below 4 ppb (2018-2020)
- Lead in Popcorn, microwave, butter-flavored: found in 1 of 3, average 2.17, highest 6.5 ppb (2018-2020)
- Lead in Seeds, sunflower, shelled, salted, roasted: found in 0 of 3, all below 5 ppb (2018-2020)
- Cadmium in Peanuts, dry roasted, salted: found in 3 of 3, average 40.7, highest 45 ppb (2018-2020)
- Cadmium in Popcorn, microwave, butter-flavored: found in 3 of 3, average 6.03, highest 6.2 ppb (2018-2020)
- Cadmium in Seeds, sunflower, shelled, salted, roasted: found in 3 of 3, average 333, highest 400 ppb (2018-2020)
- Mercury in Peanuts, dry roasted, salted: found in 0 of 3, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Mercury in Popcorn, microwave, butter-flavored: found in 0 of 3, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Mercury in Seeds, sunflower, shelled, salted, roasted: found in 1 of 3, average 0.43, highest 1.3 ppb (2018-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Peanuts, dry roasted, salted: found in 2 of 3, average 3.3, highest 5 ppb (2018-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Popcorn, microwave, butter-flavored: found in 0 of 3, all below 4 ppb (2018-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Seeds, sunflower, shelled, salted, roasted: found in 1 of 3, average 2.17, highest 6.5 ppb (2018-2020)
- Perchlorate in Peanuts, dry roasted, salted: found in 2 of 20, average 0.15, highest 2 ppb (2008-2012)
- Perchlorate in Popcorn, microwave, butter-flavored: found in 3 of 20, average 0.45, highest 5 ppb (2008-2012)
- Perchlorate in Sunflower seeds (shelled), roasted, salted: found in 7 of 20, average 0.56, highest 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)
CARAMEL CORN [BROWN SUGAR, CORN SYRUP, SUGAR, POPCORN, BUTTER (CREAM, SALT), BAKING SODA, SALT, VEGETABLE AND/OR SOYBEAN OIL, SOY LECITHIN], WHITE CHOCOLATE [SUGAR, VEGETABLE OIL (PAIM KERNEL OIL AND HYDROGENATED PALM KERNEL OIL), WHOLE MILK SOLIDS, WHEY POWDER, NONFAT DRY MILK SOLIDS, ARTIFICIAL COLOR (TITANIUM DIOXIDE), SOY LECITHIN (AN EMULSIFIER), SALT AND ARTIFICAL FLAVOR], COOKIE [UNBLEACHED ENRICHED FLOUR (WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIANINE MONONITRATE {VITAMIN B1}, RIBOFLAVIN {VITAMIN B2}, FOLIC ACID), SUGAR, PALM AND/OR CANOLA OIL, COCOA (PROCEDDED WITH ALKALI), HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP, LEAVENING (BAKING SODA AND/OR CALCIUM PHOSPHATE), SALT, SOY LECITHIN, CHOCOLATE, ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR).
From USDA FoodData Central, label dated 2021-10-28. Labels change; check the package.