Coffee House Cafe Strawberry Cream Cheese Crumble Cake, Strawberry Cream Cheese
Fgf LLC · Cakes, Cupcakes, Snack Cakes · barcode 00883426027246
What stands out
- From the label
The ingredients list Red No. 40 (Allura Red), Partially hydrogenated oils, Titanium dioxide, Yellow No. 6 (Sunset Yellow) and Yellow No. 5 (tartrazine), which have stricter rules elsewhere. Strictest: No longer allowed by FDA; not approved in the EU. Details
- Lab testsNo lab has published results for this exact product.
- RecallsNo FDA recall lists this barcode.
- Additives5 ingredients have stricter rules elsewhere. Strictest: No longer allowed by FDA; not approved in the EU. 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 2021-10-28). Recipes change, so check the package you have.
Rules that apply to more than one of these
- US (FDA): Allowed Source. Applies to Red No. 40 (Allura Red), Titanium dioxide, Yellow No. 6 (Sunset Yellow), Yellow No. 5 (tartrazine).
- EU: Allowed with warning label (Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008, Annex V) Source. Applies to Red No. 40 (Allura Red), Yellow No. 6 (Sunset Yellow), Yellow No. 5 (tartrazine).
- California: Banned in school meals from 2027-12-31 Banned in food and drinks offered in California public schools from December 31, 2027. (AB 2316 (2024)) Source. Applies to Red No. 40 (Allura Red), Yellow No. 6 (Sunset Yellow), Yellow No. 5 (tartrazine).
- West Virginia: Banned from 2028-01-01 Food containing it is treated as adulterated in West Virginia from January 1, 2028. (HB 2354 (2025)) Source. Applies to Red No. 40 (Allura Red), Yellow No. 6 (Sunset Yellow), Yellow No. 5 (tartrazine).
- West Virginia: Banned in school meals from 2025-08-01 Banned in West Virginia school meals since August 1, 2025. (HB 2354 (2025)) Source. Applies to Red No. 40 (Allura Red), Yellow No. 6 (Sunset Yellow), Yellow No. 5 (tartrazine).
- 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.
- 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. Applies to Red No. 40 (Allura Red), Yellow No. 6 (Sunset Yellow), Yellow No. 5 (tartrazine).
- 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. Applies to Red No. 40 (Allura Red), Partially hydrogenated oils, Yellow No. 6 (Sunset Yellow), Yellow No. 5 (tartrazine), Bleached flour.
Red No. 40 (Allura Red) (E129)
Only the shared rules above.
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
Titanium dioxide (E171)
- 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
Yellow No. 6 (Sunset Yellow) (E110)
Only the shared rules above.
Yellow No. 5 (tartrazine) (E102)
Only the shared rules above.
Bleached flour
- US (FDA): Allowed FDA allows bleached flour. 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 slice, 63 g, from the label):16% 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, 63 g, from the label):5% 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, 63 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)
CREME CAKE BASE (ENRICHED FLOUR BLEACHED [WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID], SUGAR, FOOD STARCH-MODIFIED, DEXTROSE, SOYBEAN OIL, LEAVENING [SODIUM ALUMINUM PHOSPHATE, BAKING SODA, MONOCALCIUM PHOSPHATE], WHEY, SALT, MONO AND DIGLYCERIDES, PROPYLENE GLYCOL MONO AND DIESTERS OF FATTY ACIDS, VITAL WHEAT GLUTEN, SODIUM STEAROYL LACTYLATE, TRICALCIUM PHOSPHATE, XANTHAN GUM, CORN STARCH, CELLULOSE GUM, SOY FLOUR, EGG, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVORS, WATER, ALPHA TOCOPHEROLS AS PRESERVATIVE, ASCORBIC ACID, CITRIC ACID), STRAWBERRY FILLING (STRAWBERRIES, HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP, FOOD STARCH-MODIFIED, WATER, SUGAR, CITRIC ACID, SALT, SODIUM CITRATE, POTASSIUM SORBATE PRESERVATIVE, SODIUM BENZOATE PRESERVATIVE, GELLAN GUM, ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, RED 40), CREAM CHEESE FILLING (WATER, SUGAR, CREAM CHEESE [PASTEURIZED MILK AND CREAM, CHEESE CULTURE, SALT, CAROB BEAN GUM], CORN SYRUP, FOOD STARCH-MODIFIED, PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED VEGETABLE OIL [SOYBEAN AND/OR COTTONSEED OIL], SALT, GLUCONO DELTA LACTONE, SODIUM BENZOATE PRESERVATIVE, POTASSIUM SORBATE PRESERVATIVE, TITANIUM DIOXIDE COLOR, POLYSORBATE 60, LACTIC ACID, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, SOY LECITHIN, CITRIC ACID, YELLOW 6, YELLOW 5), EGG, WATER, ENRICHED FLOUR (WHEAT FLOUR, MALTED BARLEY FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID), SOYBEAN OIL, MARGARINE (PALM OIL, WATER, SOYBEAN OIL, SALT, NATURAL FLAVOR, SOY LECITHIN, BETA CAROTENE COLOR, VITAMIN A PALMITATE ADDED), POWDERED SUGAR (SUGAR, CORNSTARCH), SUGAR, DRY CULTURED WHEY, NATURAL FLAVOR, SALT, SOY LECITHIN.
From USDA FoodData Central, label dated 2021-10-28. Labels change; check the package.