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Purple Cow Lemon Poppy Seed Cake Ice Cream With Lemon Flavored Cake Pieces & A Lemon Swirl, Lemon Poppy Seed Cake

Meijer, Inc. · Ice Cream & Frozen Yogurt · barcode 00708820206823

What stands out

  • From the label

    The ingredients list Yellow No. 5 (tartrazine), which has 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.
  • Additives1 ingredient has stricter rules elsewhere. Strictest: West Virginia ban from 2028; EU warning label. Which
  • TypicalFDA's tests of ice cream & frozen yogurt show what's typical. See levels
  • Others3 other ice cream & frozen yogurt products have lab results. Compare them

Additives with restrictions somewhere

From the ingredient list on file (label data dated 2022-04-01). Recipes change, so check the package you have.

Rules that apply to more than one of these

  • 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), BHT (butylated hydroxytoluene).
  • 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.
  • US (FDA): Allowed Source. Applies to Interesterified oils, BHT (butylated hydroxytoluene).

Yellow No. 5 (tartrazine) (E102)

  • US (FDA): Allowed FDA allows Yellow No. 5 as a certified color additive. Source
  • EU: Allowed with warning label Allowed as E102, but foods containing it must say it "may have an adverse effect on activity and attention in children." (Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008, Annex V) Source
  • 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
  • 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
  • West Virginia: Banned in school meals from 2025-08-01 Banned in West Virginia school meals since August 1, 2025. (HB 2354 (2025)) Source

Interesterified oils

Only the shared rules above.

BHT (butylated hydroxytoluene) (E321)

  • EU: Allowed On the EU's list of approved additives as E321. For limited uses. (Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008) Source

Typical for ice cream & frozen yogurt

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 Ice cream, chocolate: found in 18 of 27 samples, average 3.96, highest 10 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Lead in Ice cream, vanilla: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 4 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Lead in Yogurt, frozen, vanilla: found in 1 of 26 samples, average 0.15, highest 4 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Cadmium in Ice cream, chocolate: found in 27 of 27 samples, average 7.27, highest 15 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Cadmium in Ice cream, vanilla: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Cadmium in Yogurt, frozen, vanilla: found in 0 of 26 samples, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Mercury in Ice cream, chocolate: found in 9 of 27 samples, average 0.45, highest 2.3 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Mercury in Ice cream, vanilla: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Mercury in Yogurt, frozen, vanilla: found in 0 of 26 samples, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Arsenic (total) in Ice cream, chocolate: found in 4 of 27 samples, average 0.49, highest 3.4 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Arsenic (total) in Ice cream, vanilla: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 3 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Arsenic (total) in Yogurt, frozen, vanilla: found in 1 of 26 samples, average 0.13, highest 3.3 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Perchlorate in Ice cream, regular, vanilla: found in 19 of 19 samples, average 6.81, highest 12 ppb (2008-2012)

Left out of the summary above: Perchlorate. FDA measured it in only some of these foods, so the result describes those foods, not the whole kind.

"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)

MILK, CREAM, CANE SYRUP, LEMON CAKE PIECES (ENRICHED WHEAT FLOUR [NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID], SUGAR, EGGS, CORN SYRUP, INTERESTERIFIED SOYBEAN OIL, BUTTER [PASTEURIZED CREAM], INVERT SUGAR, CELLULOSE, STRAWBERRIES, SALT, BAKING POWDER (SODIUM ACID PYROPHOSPHATE, SODIUM BICARBONATE, CORNSTARCH, MONOCALCIUM PHOSPHATE), NATURAL FLAVORS, CITRIC ACID), LEMON VARIEGATE (CANE SUGAR, WATER, LEMON JUICE, MODIFIED CORN STARCH, LEMON JUICE CONCENTRATE, LEMON PEEL, PECTIN, NATURAL FLAVOR, VEGETABLE JUICE FOR COLOR [CARROT]), NONFAT MILK, POPPY SEEDS, LEMON JUICE POWDER (CORN THE EYES FAMILY SYRUP, LEMON JUICE SOLIDS, LEMON OIL, BHT [PRESERVATIVE]), LOCUST BEAN GUM, GUAR GUM, CARRAGEENAN, DEXTROSE, FD&C YELLOW 5.

From USDA FoodData Central, label dated 2022-04-01. Labels change; check the package.

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