F-bombs Cookies & Cream Truffles, Cookies & Cream

GMP Global Marketing Inc. · Chocolate · barcode 00850036018025

What stands out

Recall
1 FDA recall names this barcode (2023, closed): undeclared Yellow No. 5. Details

Lab testsNo lab has published results for this exact product.
Recalls1 FDA recall names this barcode (2023, closed). Details
Additives1 ingredient has a label or school-food rule in some states. Which
TypicalFDA's tests of chocolate show what's typical. See levels
Others3 other chocolate products have lab results. Compare them

FDA recalls

2023-09-27 · Class II · Terminated Undeclared FD&C Yellow #5 and Yellow #6Fox Confections LLC: F-Bombs Cookies & Cream Truffles: 12 ounce plastic packaging, plastic packaging is packed into 4x4x2 cardboard boxes. UPC 850036018025 Recall F-1536-2023 details

Additives with restrictions somewhere

From the ingredient list on file (label data dated 2023-06-29). Recipes change, so check the package you have.

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 chocolate

What FDA found when it bought and tested this kind of food across the US. These are not tests of this product.

Lead: typically 4.05 ppb (FDA, 6 samples, 2018-2020). A toddler reaches FDA's daily limit at about 550 g (19 oz) a day; an adult at about 2.2 kg (4.9 lb).
One serving (2 bombs, 56 g, from the label):
10% of a toddler's daily limit
3% of an adult's daily limit
Cadmium: typically 18 ppb (FDA, 6 samples, 2018-2020). A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 840 g (30 oz) a day; an adult at about 3.9 kg (8.6 lb).
One serving (2 bombs, 56 g, from the label):
7% of a toddler's daily limit
1% of an adult's daily limit
Arsenic (total): typically 3.1 ppb (FDA, 6 samples, 2018-2020). No US agency limit we can cite.
Perchlorate: typically 5.98 ppb (FDA, 40 samples, 2008-2012). A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 1.8 kg (4 lb) a day; an adult at about 8.6 kg (19 lb).
One serving (2 bombs, 56 g, from the label):
3% 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 Candy bar, chocolate, nougat, with nuts: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 4 ppb (2018-2020)
Lead in Candy bar, milk chocolate, plain: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 7.93, highest 8.3 ppb (2018-2020)
Cadmium in Candy bar, chocolate, nougat, with nuts: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 15.7, highest 17 ppb (2018-2020)
Cadmium in Candy bar, milk chocolate, plain: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 20, highest 26 ppb (2018-2020)
Mercury in Candy bar, chocolate, nougat, with nuts: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
Mercury in Candy bar, milk chocolate, plain: found in 1 of 3 samples, average 0.57, highest 1.7 ppb (2018-2020)
Arsenic (total) in Candy bar, chocolate, nougat, with nuts: found in 2 of 3 samples, average 3.63, highest 7.8 ppb (2018-2020)
Arsenic (total) in Candy bar, milk chocolate, plain: found in 2 of 3 samples, average 2.13, highest 3.3 ppb (2018-2020)
Perchlorate in Candy bar, chocolate, nougat, and nuts: found in 15 of 20 samples, average 2.52, highest 9 ppb (2008-2012)
Perchlorate in Candy bar, milk chocolate, plain: found in 19 of 20 samples, average 8.92, highest 15 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)

TRUFFLE MIX: ENRICHED BLEACHED WHEAT FLOUR (WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID), SUGAR, COCOA PROCESSED WITH ALKALI, HIGH FRUCTOSE, LEAVENING (SODIUM BICARBONATE, SODIUM ALUMINUM PHOSPHATE, MONOCALCIUM PHOSPHATE), CANOLA OIL, PROPYLENE GLYCOL MONO AND DIESTERS, SALT, MODIFIED CORN STARCH, MONO AND DIGLYCERIDES, FRACTIONATED PALM OIL, CELLULOSE GUM, SODIUM STEAROYL LACTYLATE, XANTHAN GUM, ASCORBIC ACID, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, WHEAT STARCH, WATER, VEGETABLE OIL (SOYBEAN), EGGS, BUTTER (PASTEURIZED CREAM, NATURAL FLAVORING), VANILLIN, APRICOT PRESERVES (APRICOTS, HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP, CORN SYRUP, FRUIT PECTIN, CITRIC ACID). COATING: SUGAR, VEGETABLE OIL (PALM KERNEL OIL AND HYDROGENATED PALM KERNEL OIL), COCOA POWDER PROCESSED WITH ALKALI, SOY LECITHIN, WHEY POWDER, SALT. FILLING: SUGAR, VEGETABLE SHORTENING (PALM OIL, CANOLA OIL, MONO AND DIGLYCERIDES, POLYSORBATE 60), WATER, CORN SYRUP, HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP, ARTIFICIAL COLOR, CORN STARCH, NATURAL & ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, SALT, GUAR GUM PHOSPHORIC ACID, POTASSIUM SORBATE, SODIUM BENZOATE. GARNISH: UNBLEACHED ENRICHED FLOUR (WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID), SUGAR, PALM AND/OR CANOLA OIL, COCOA PROCESSED 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 2023-06-29. Labels change; check the package.

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