Gem City Fine Foods Gluten B Free, Vegan Chocolate Cake
Blossom Fine Foods LLC · Cakes, Cupcakes, Snack Cakes · barcode 00855026001421
What stands out
- Recall
2 FDA recalls name this barcode (newest 2023, closed): Incorrect ingredients label on back of product shows…. Details
- Lab testsNo lab has published results for this exact product.
- Recalls2 FDA recalls name this barcode (newest 2023, closed). Details
- AdditivesNone of the additives we track appear in the ingredients.
- TypicalFDA's tests of cakes, cupcakes, snack cakes show what's typical. See levels
FDA recalls
- 2021-02-03 · Class II · Terminated Mislabeled - Nutrition facts panel and list of ingredients were incorrect.Gem City Fine Foods, LLC: Vegan Chocolate Cake, 25 oz., packaged in plastic base/cake dome, UPC 855026001421, Gem City Fine Foods, www.gemcityfinefoods.com. Keep Frozen. Recall F-0228-2021 details
- 2023-03-15 · Class III · Terminated Incorrect ingredients label on back of product shows "Contains: rBST-free dairy, cage-free eggs, and soy" when the product does not. This statement is found above "Made in a facility that uses Dairy, Eggs and Soy."Gem City Fine Foods, LLC: Gem City Fine Foods GF Vegan Chocolate Cake, 25 oz, in recyclable plastic circular container with black base and clear lid, Gem City Fine Foods, LLC, 3403 S 1400 W, Ste C., West Valley City, UT 84119. UPC 855026-00142-1 Recall F-0413-2023 details
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 slice, 59 g, from the label):15% of a toddler's daily limit4% 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 slice, 59 g, from the label):4% of a toddler's daily limitunder 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 slice, 59 g, from the label):1% of a toddler's daily limitunder 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)
SOY MILK ((FILTERED WATER, WHOLE ORGANIC SOYBEANS), CARRAGEENAN, SEA SALT), POWDERED SUGAR, CANE SUGAR, WHITE RICE FLOUR, EXPELLER-PRESSED CANOLA OIL, PALM SHORTENING, NATURAL OIL SHORTENING (NATURAL OIL BLEND (PALM FRUIT, CANOLA, AND OLIVE OILS), FILTERED WATER, PURE SALT, CONTAINS LESS THAN 2% OF NATURAL FLAVOR (NO MSG, NO ALCOHOL, NO GLUTEN), SUNFLOWER LECITHIN, LACTIC ACID (NON-DAIRY, DERIVED FROM SUGAR BEETS), AND COLORED WITH ANNATTO EXTRACT), COCOA POWDER, POTATO STARCH, SORGHUM FLOUR, TAPIOCA FLOUR, VANILLA, BAKING SODA, APPLE CIDER VINEGAR, SPICES, SALT, XANTHAN GUM, BAKING POWDER.
From USDA FoodData Central, label dated 2021-10-28. Labels change; check the package.