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Cakes, Cupcakes, Snack Cakes · barcode 00681131072762

Sour Cream Pound Cake

Marketside · Wal-Mart Stores, 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 cakes, cupcakes, snack cakes 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.

Partially hydrogenated oils

  • US (FDA): Authorization revoked FDA determined in 2015 that they are no longer generally recognized as safe; makers had to remove them, with final compliance dates in 2018-2020. Labels on file may predate that. (80 FR 34650 (2015)) 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
  • 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

Bleached flour

  • US (FDA): Allowed FDA allows bleached flour. 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
  • 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 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.

FDA samples behind these numbers
  • Lead in Cake, chocolate with chocolate icing: found in 27 of 27, average 8.92, highest 16 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Lead in Cake, white with white icing: found in 9 of 27, average 2.56, highest 17 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Cadmium in Cake, chocolate with chocolate icing: found in 27 of 27, average 17.6, highest 40 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Cadmium in Cake, white with white icing: found in 27 of 27, average 4.13, highest 6.4 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Mercury in Cake, chocolate with chocolate icing: found in 9 of 27, average 0.45, highest 1.9 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Mercury in Cake, white with white icing: found in 0 of 27, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Arsenic (total) in Cake, chocolate with chocolate icing: found in 25 of 27, average 3.6, highest 4.6 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Arsenic (total) in Cake, white with white icing: found in 10 of 27, average 1.72, highest 7.4 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Perchlorate in Cake, chocolate w/ icing: found in 12 of 20, average 2.76, highest 14 ppb (2008-2012)
  • Perchlorate in Cake, white w/ icing (formerly yellow cake): found in 12 of 20, 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)

SUGAR, BLEACHED WHEAT FLOUR, WATER, SOYBEAN OIL, EGGS, ENRICHED FLOUR (WHEAT FLOUR, MALTED BARLEY FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID), CONTAINS LESS THAN 2% OF EACH OF THE FOLLOWING: VEGETABLE SHORTENING (PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED SOYBEAN OIL, HYDROGENATED COTTONSEED OIL, POLYGLYCEROL ESTERS OF FATTY ACIDS, MONOGLYCERIDES, TBHQ [PRESERVATIVE], CITRIC ACID [PRESERVATIVE]), WHEAT FLOUR, FOOD STARCH-MODIFIED, ENRICHED FLOUR BLEACHED (WHEAT FLOUR, FERROUS SULFATE, NIACIN, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID), WHEY, PALM OIL, PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED SOYBEAN AND/OR COTTONSEED OILS, DEXTROSE, NONFAT MILK, CANOLA OIL AND/OR SOYBEAN OIL, SALT, MONO- AND DIGLYCERIDES, SODIUM ALUMINUM PHOSPHATE, BAKING SODA, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVORS, CORN STARCH, WHEAT GLUTEN, EGG WHITES, SOY LECITHIN, SOY FLOUR, MALTODEXTRIN, SODIUM PROPIONATE (PRESERVATIVE), CELLULOSE GUM, SODIUM STEAROYL LACTYLATE, BETA-CAROTENE (COLOR), EGG YOLKS, POTASSIUM SORBATE (PRESERVATIVE), PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED COTTON SEED OIL AND/OR PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED CANOLA OIL, LEAVENING (SODIUM ALUMINUM PHOSPHATE, BAKING SODA), BUTTER, XANTHAN GUM, ANNATTO EXTRACT (COLOR), PROPYLENE GLYCOL, TURMERIC (COLOR), TBHQ (PRESERVATIVE), CITRIC ACID (PRESERVATIVE), ETHYL ALCOHOL, TRICALCIUM PHOSPHATE, ENZYMES, TOCOPHEROLS (PRESERVATIVE), BETA-APO-8'-CAROTENAL (COLOR).

From USDA FoodData Central, label dated 2021-10-28. Labels change; check the package.

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