Mrs.fields Nibblers Fudge Dipped Cookies, Peanut Butter Chip, Peanut Butter Chip
Mrs. Fields Famous Brands LLC · Cookies & Biscuits · barcode 00886002700014
What stands out
- From the label
The ingredients list Partially hydrogenated oils, which has stricter rules elsewhere. Strictest: No longer allowed by FDA. Details
- Lab testsNo lab has published results for this exact product.
- RecallsNo FDA recall lists this barcode.
- Additives1 ingredient has stricter rules elsewhere. Strictest: No longer allowed by FDA. Which
- TypicalFDA's tests of cookies & biscuits show what's typical. See levels
Additives with restrictions somewhere
From the ingredient list on file (label data dated 2022-05-23). 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.
- 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 Partially hydrogenated oils, Bleached flour.
- US (FDA): Allowed Source. Applies to Bleached flour, DATEM.
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
Bleached flour
Only the shared rules above.
DATEM (E472e)
- EU: Allowed On the EU's list of approved additives as E472e. (Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008) Source
Typical for cookies & biscuits
What FDA found when it bought and tested this kind of food across the US. These are not tests of this product.
- Lead: typically 5.33 ppb (FDA, 9 samples, 2018-2020).
A toddler reaches FDA's daily limit at about 310 g (11 oz) a day; an adult at about 1.3 kg (2.9 lb).One serving (2 cookies, 25 g, from the label):8% of a toddler's daily limit2% of an adult's daily limit
- Cadmium: typically 26.7 ppb (FDA, 9 samples, 2018-2020).
A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 550 g (19 oz) a day; an adult at about 2.6 kg (5.7 lb).One serving (2 cookies, 25 g, from the label):5% of a toddler's daily limitunder 1% of an adult's daily limit
- Arsenic (total): typically 3.7 ppb (FDA, 9 samples, 2018-2020). No US agency limit we can cite.
- Mercury, Perchlorate: usually below 1 ppb, the lab's limit, in FDA's samples.
FDA samples behind these numbers
- Lead in Cookies, chocolate chip: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 7.57, highest 10 ppb (2018-2020)
- Lead in Cookies, sandwich, with crème filling: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 13.4, highest 24 ppb (2018-2020)
- Lead in Cookies, sugar: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 4 ppb (2018-2020)
- Cadmium in Cookies, chocolate chip: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 48.3, highest 68 ppb (2018-2020)
- Cadmium in Cookies, sandwich, with crème filling: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 18.3, highest 25 ppb (2018-2020)
- Cadmium in Cookies, sugar: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 15.7, highest 18 ppb (2018-2020)
- Mercury in Cookies, chocolate chip: found in 1 of 3 samples, average 0.57, highest 1.7 ppb (2018-2020)
- Mercury in Cookies, sandwich, with crème filling: found in 1 of 3 samples, average 0.53, highest 1.6 ppb (2018-2020)
- Mercury in Cookies, sugar: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Cookies, chocolate chip: found in 2 of 3 samples, average 3.43, highest 5.2 ppb (2018-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Cookies, sandwich, with crème filling: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 5.6, highest 7.2 ppb (2018-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Cookies, sugar: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 3 ppb (2018-2020)
- Perchlorate in Chocolate chip cookies: found in 6 of 20 samples, average 0.53, highest 3 ppb (2008-2012)
- Perchlorate in Sandwich cookies w/ creme filling: found in 5 of 20 samples, average 0.6, highest 3 ppb (2008-2012)
- Perchlorate in Sugar cookies: found in 13 of 19 samples, average 3.07, highest 15.4 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)
ENRICHED BLEACHED FLOUR (WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID), SUGAR, PEANUT BUTTER (PEANUTS, CORN SYRUP SOLIDS, VEGETABLE OIL [HYDROGENATED COTTONSEED OIL AND/OR PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED COTTONSEED AND SOYBEAN OILS], SALT), FRUCTOSE, PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED PALM KERNEL OIL, MARGARINE (PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED SOYBEAN AND COTTONSEED OIL, WATER, SALT, SOY LECITHIN, VEGETABLE MONO & DIGLYCERIDES, WHEY SOLIDS, SODIUM BENZOATE [PRESERVATIVE], NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, VITAMIN A PALMITATE ADDED, BETA CAROTENE [COLOR]), PEANUT BUTTER CHIPS (SUGAR, PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED PALM KERNEL OIL, PARTIALLY DEFATTED PEANUT FLOUR, NONFAT DRY MILK SOLIDS, WHEY, PEANUT BUTTER [PEANUTS, HYDROGENATED COTTONSEED AND RAPESEED OIL], DEXTROSE, SALT, SOY LECITHIN), BUTTER, PEANUT OIL, MOLASSES, COCOA (PROCESSED WITH ALKALI), DATEM, DISTILLED MONOGLYCERIDES, BAKING SODA, POTATO STARCH, SALT, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, SOY LECITHIN, XANTHAN GUM.
From USDA FoodData Central, label dated 2022-05-23. Labels change; check the package.