Flavored Snack Crackers · barcode 00757003000260
La Barca Cuban Crackers, 8 Oz
La Barca · Mi Ranchito Corporation
- Lab testsNo lab has published results for this exact product.
- RecallsNo FDA recall lists this barcode.
- Additives2 ingredients are banned or unapproved somewhere. Which
- TypicalFDA's tests of flavored snack crackers show what's typical. See levels
Additives with restrictions somewhere
From the ingredient list on file (label data dated 2023-07-13). Recipes change, so check the package you have.
Potassium bromate
- US (FDA): Allowed FDA allows it in flour and bread. Source
- EU: Not authorised Not on the EU's list of approved food additives (checked against the version in force on 18 August 2026). (Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008, Annex II) Source
- California: Banned from 2027-01-01 Banned in food made, sold or distributed in California after January 1, 2027. (AB 418 (2023)) 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: 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
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 flavored snack crackers
What FDA found when it bought and tested this kind of food across the US. These are not tests of this product.
- Lead: typically 1.5 ppb (FDA, 9 samples, 2018-2020).
A toddler reaches FDA's daily limit at about 760 g (27 oz) a day; an adult at about 3.1 kg (6.8 lb).One serving (100 g (3½ oz)):13% of a toddler's daily limit3% of a adult's daily limit
- Cadmium: typically 28.7 ppb (FDA, 9 samples, 2018-2020).
A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 530 g (19 oz) a day; an adult at about 2.5 kg (5.5 lb).One serving (100 g (3½ oz)):19% of a toddler's daily limit4% of a adult's daily limit
- Arsenic (total): typically 4.7 ppb (FDA, 9 samples, 2018-2020). No US agency limit we can cite.
- Perchlorate: typically 2.75 ppb (FDA, 40 samples, 2008-2012).
A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 1.9 kg (4.2 lb) a day; an adult at about 9.1 kg (20 lb).One serving (100 g (3½ oz)):5% of a toddler's daily limit1% of a adult's daily limit
- Mercury: usually below 1 ppb, the lab's limit, in FDA's samples.
FDA samples behind these numbers
- Lead in Crackers, butter-type: found in 1 of 3, average 2.43, highest 7.3 ppb (2018-2020)
- Lead in Crackers, cheese: found in 3 of 3, average 4.83, highest 5.5 ppb (2018-2020)
- Lead in Crackers, saltine: found in 1 of 3, average 1.37, highest 4.1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Cadmium in Crackers, butter-type: found in 3 of 3, average 35.7, highest 43 ppb (2018-2020)
- Cadmium in Crackers, cheese: found in 3 of 3, average 21.7, highest 25 ppb (2018-2020)
- Cadmium in Crackers, saltine: found in 3 of 3, average 28, highest 35 ppb (2018-2020)
- Mercury in Crackers, butter-type: found in 0 of 3, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Mercury in Crackers, cheese: found in 0 of 3, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Mercury in Crackers, saltine: found in 0 of 3, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Crackers, butter-type: found in 3 of 3, average 7.6, highest 7.9 ppb (2018-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Crackers, cheese: found in 2 of 3, average 3.13, highest 6.3 ppb (2018-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Crackers, saltine: found in 3 of 3, average 3.5, highest 4 ppb (2018-2020)
- Perchlorate in Crackers, butter-type: found in 16 of 20, average 10.2, highest 37 ppb (2008-2012)
- Perchlorate in Crackers, saltine: found in 5 of 20, average 0.57, highest 3 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)
BLEACHED WHEAT FLOUR (MALTED BARLEY FLOUR, NIACIN, IRON, POTASSIUM BROMATE, THIAMIN MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID), WATER, LARD, VEGETABLE SHORTENING (PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED SOYBEAN OIL AND/OR PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED COTTON SEED OIL), SALT, YEAST
From USDA FoodData Central, label dated 2023-07-13. Labels change; check the package.