Candy · barcode 00854835004029

Cacao-nectar Bar, Oregon Peppermint

Honey Mama's · Nectar Foods

FDA recalls

• 2018-07-18 · Class I · Terminated Honey Mama's Oregon Peppermint Cacao-Nectar Bar, 2.5 oz, is recalled due to undeclared almonds.Nectar Foods LLC: Honey Mama's Oregon Peppermint Cacao-Nectar Bar wrapped in quilon parchment paper with a sticker label. Net wt. 2.5 oz, 3" x 3" bar, 12 bars to a cardboard display case and 12 display cases to a cardboard master case. UPC on each bar is 8 54835 00402 9. The product label is read in parts: "***Paleo HONEY MAMA'S***Oregon Peppermint CACAO-NECTAR BAR ***Made with luscious coconut meat, dark cocoa, peppermint oil & raw local honey*** NO Gluten, Soy, Dairy or Grain *** INGREDIENTS: raw local honey, shredded Organic coconut, unrefined Organic coconut oil, Organic Dutch alkalized cocoa powder, Himalayan pink salt, peppermint oil***Contains tree nut (coconut). FDA record F-1654-2018

Typical for candy

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

• Arsenic (total): typically 5.37 ppb (FDA, 9 samples, 2018-2020). No US agency limit we can cite.
• Perchlorate: typically 4.62 ppb (FDA, 39 samples, 2008-2012). A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 2.2 kg (4.9 lb) a day; an adult at about 10 kg (22 lb).
  One serving (100 g (3½ oz)):

  5% of a toddler's daily limit

  under 1% of a adult's daily limit
• Lead, Cadmium, Mercury: usually below 4 ppb, the lab's limit, in FDA's samples.

FDA samples behind these numbers

• Lead in Candies, fruit snacks: found in 0 of 3, all below 4 ppb (2018-2020)
• Lead in Candy bar, milk chocolate, plain: found in 3 of 3, average 7.93, highest 8.3 ppb (2018-2020)
• Lead in Candy, hard: found in 0 of 3, all below 4 ppb (2018-2020)
• Cadmium in Candies, fruit snacks: found in 0 of 3, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
• Cadmium in Candy bar, milk chocolate, plain: found in 3 of 3, average 20, highest 26 ppb (2018-2020)
• Cadmium in Candy, hard: found in 0 of 3, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
• Mercury in Candies, fruit snacks: found in 0 of 3, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
• Mercury in Candy bar, milk chocolate, plain: found in 1 of 3, average 0.57, highest 1.7 ppb (2018-2020)
• Mercury in Candy, hard: found in 0 of 3, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
• Arsenic (total) in Candies, fruit snacks: found in 0 of 3, all below 3 ppb (2018-2020)
• Arsenic (total) in Candy bar, milk chocolate, plain: found in 2 of 3, average 2.13, highest 3.3 ppb (2018-2020)
• Arsenic (total) in Candy, hard: found in 3 of 3, average 13, highest 15 ppb (2018-2020)
• Perchlorate in Candy bar, milk chocolate, plain: found in 19 of 20, average 8.92, highest 15 ppb (2008-2012)
• Perchlorate in Candy, hard, any flavor: found in 1 of 19, average 0.47, 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)

RAW LOCAL HONEY, SHREDDED ORGANIC COCONUT, UNREFINED ORGANIC COCONUT OIL, ORGANIC DUTCH ALKALIZED COCOA POWDER, HIMALAYAN PINK SALT, PEPPERMINT OIL.

From USDA FoodData Central, label dated 2022-06-21. Labels change; check the package.

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