Kimberley's Bakeshoppe Peanut Butter & Chocolate Brownie Collection, Peanut Butter & Chocolate

Kimberley's Bakeshoppe · Cakes, Cupcakes, Snack Cakes · barcode 00770981013015

What stands out

From the label
The ingredients list Titanium dioxide, which has stricter rules elsewhere. Strictest: Not allowed in the EU since 2022. Details

Lab testsNo lab has published results for this exact product.
RecallsNo FDA recall lists this barcode.
Additives1 ingredient has stricter rules elsewhere. Strictest: Not allowed in the EU since 2022. 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 2020-05-28). 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.

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

Bleached flour

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

Lead: typically 3.9 ppb (FDA, 54 samples, 2017-2020). A toddler reaches FDA's daily limit at about 380 g (13 oz) a day; an adult at about 1.5 kg (3.3 lb).
One serving (1 brownie, 38 g, from the label):
10% of a toddler's daily limit
2% of an adult's daily limit
Cadmium: typically 9.7 ppb (FDA, 54 samples, 2017-2020). A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 1.4 kg (3.1 lb) a day; an adult at about 6.4 kg (14 lb).
One serving (1 brownie, 38 g, from the label):
3% of a toddler's daily limit
under 1% of an adult's daily limit
Arsenic (total): typically 1.9 ppb (FDA, 54 samples, 2017-2020). No US agency limit we can cite.
Perchlorate: typically 1.5 ppb (FDA, 40 samples, 2008-2012). A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 4.5 kg (9.9 lb) a day; an adult at about 21 kg (46 lb).
One serving (1 brownie, 38 g, from the label):
under 1% of a toddler's daily limit
under 1% of an adult's daily limit
Mercury: usually below 1 ppb, the lab's limit, in FDA's samples.

FDA samples behind these numbers

Lead in Cake, chocolate with chocolate icing: found in 27 of 27 samples, average 8.92, highest 16 ppb (2017-2020)
Lead in Cake, white with white icing: found in 9 of 27 samples, average 2.56, highest 17 ppb (2017-2020)
Cadmium in Cake, chocolate with chocolate icing: found in 27 of 27 samples, average 17.6, highest 40 ppb (2017-2020)
Cadmium in Cake, white with white icing: found in 27 of 27 samples, average 4.13, highest 6.4 ppb (2017-2020)
Mercury in Cake, chocolate with chocolate icing: found in 9 of 27 samples, average 0.45, highest 1.9 ppb (2017-2020)
Mercury in Cake, white with white icing: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
Arsenic (total) in Cake, chocolate with chocolate icing: found in 25 of 27 samples, average 3.6, highest 4.6 ppb (2017-2020)
Arsenic (total) in Cake, white with white icing: found in 10 of 27 samples, average 1.72, highest 7.4 ppb (2017-2020)
Perchlorate in Cake, chocolate w/ icing: found in 12 of 20 samples, average 2.76, highest 14 ppb (2008-2012)
Perchlorate in Cake, white w/ icing (formerly yellow cake): found in 12 of 20 samples, 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 ENRICHED WHEAT FLOUR (WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID), SOYBEAN OIL, ICING SUGAR (SUGAR, CORNSTARCH), SHORTENING (CANOLA, PALM, FRACTIONATED PALM AND PALM KERNEL OILS, MONOGLYCERIDES, POLYSORBATE 60), CORN SYRUP, WATER, EGG WHITES, CHOCOLATE (SUGAR, CHOCOLATE LIQUOR, COCOA BUTTER, SOYBEAN LECITHIN, VANILLA EXTRACT), COCOA POWDER (PROCESSED WITH ALKALI), CARAMEL FILLING (SWEETENED CONDENSED NONFAT MILK [CONDENSED NONFAT MILK, SUGAR], SUGAR, WATER, CORN SYRUP, NONFAT DRY MILK, CANOLA OIL, SODIUM ALGINATE, SALT, MICROCRYSTALLINE CELLULOSE, CARBOXYMETHYLCELLULOSE, MONOGLYCERIDES, SODIUM PHOSPHATE, POTASSIUM SORBATE [PRESERVATIVE], SOYBEAN LECITHIN, SODIUM BICARBONATE), CHOCOLATE FLAVORED FILLING (WATER, SUGAR, CORN SYRUP, MODIFIED CORNSTARCH, COCOA POWDER (PROCESSED WITH ALKALI), COLOR [CARAMEL, TITANIUM DIOXIDE), SODIUM ACID SULPHATE, SALT, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, POTASSIUM SORBATE [PRESERVATIVE], AGAR- AGAR), SOYBEAN BUTTER (TOASTED SOYBEAN, SOYBEAN OIL, SUGAR, MONOGLYCERIDES, SEA SALT), CHOCOLATE LIQUOR, BUTTER (CREAM, SALT), CHOCOLATE FLAVORED COATING (SUGAR, FRACTIONATED PALM AND/OR FRACTIONATED PALM KERNEL FAT, COCOA POWDER [PROCESSED WITH ALKALI], SOYBEAN LECITHIN, VANILLA EXTRACT), NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, SALT, NONFAT DRY MILK, MONO- AND DIGLYCERIDES, WHEY (MILK), MODIFIED CORNSTARCH, LEAVENING BLEND (SODIUM ACID PYROPHOSPHATE, SODIUM BICARBONATE, CORN STARCH, MONOCALCIUM PHOSPHATE, CALCIUM SULFATE), CHOCOLATE COATED CEREAL SPRINKLES (CRIPSY CEREAL [RICE FLOUR, SUGAR, SALT, COCOA BUTTER], CHOCOLATE [COCOA MASS, SUGAR, COCOA BUTTER, MILK FAT, SOYBEAN LECITHIN, NATURAL FLAVOR], MILK CHOCOLATE [SUGAR, COCOA BUTTER, WHOLE MILK, COCOA MASS, WHEY (MILK), SOYBEAN LECITHIN, SPICES NATURAL FLAVOR], WHITE CHOCOLATE [SUGAR, COCOA BUTTER, WHOLE MILK, WHEY (MILK), SOYBEAN LECITHIN, NATURAL FLAVOR], CORN SYRUP, SUGAR, GUM ARABIC, MODIFIED CORNSTARCH, COCONUT FAT), SOYBEAN LECITHIN, CARAMEL COLOR.

From USDA FoodData Central, label dated 2020-05-28. Labels change; check the package.

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