Cakes, Cupcakes, Snack Cakes · barcode 00888109050054

Crunch Mini Donuts, Crunch

Hostess · Hostess Brands, LLC

FDA recalls

• 2016-09-21 · Class II · Terminated Product is manufactured with flour known to contain peanut allergen and is not labeled to contain peanuts.Hostess Brands, LLC: Crunch Mini Donuts, packaged in 6-14-ct and 9-14-ct bags of mini donuts as Hostess Donettes Crunch Mini Donuts, net wt. 9.5oz, UPC 888109110642; packaged in 9-17-ct bags of mini donuts as Hostess Donettes Crunch Mini Donuts, net wt. 10.5oz, UPC 888109110659; packaged in 6ct single serving packages as Hostess Donettes Crunch Mini Donuts, net wt. 4oz, UPC 888109050054; packaged in 6ct single serving packages as Dolly Madison Crunch Mini Donuts, net wt. 4oz, UPC 888109300081; the most responsible firm name on the label is Hostess Brands, LLC, Kansas City, MO 64141 FDA record F-2121-2016

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 (100 g (3½ oz)):

  26% of a toddler's daily limit

  7% of a 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 (100 g (3½ oz)):

  7% of a toddler's daily limit

  2% of a 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 (100 g (3½ oz)):

  2% of a toddler's daily limit

  under 1% of a 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, average 8.92, highest 16 ppb (2017-2020)
• Lead in Cake, white with white icing: found in 9 of 27, average 2.56, highest 17 ppb (2017-2020)
• Cadmium in Cake, chocolate with chocolate icing: found in 27 of 27, average 17.6, highest 40 ppb (2017-2020)
• Cadmium in Cake, white with white icing: found in 27 of 27, average 4.13, highest 6.4 ppb (2017-2020)
• Mercury in Cake, chocolate with chocolate icing: found in 9 of 27, average 0.45, highest 1.9 ppb (2017-2020)
• Mercury in Cake, white with white icing: found in 0 of 27, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
• Arsenic (total) in Cake, chocolate with chocolate icing: found in 25 of 27, average 3.6, highest 4.6 ppb (2017-2020)
• Arsenic (total) in Cake, white with white icing: found in 10 of 27, average 1.72, highest 7.4 ppb (2017-2020)
• Perchlorate in Cake, chocolate w/ icing: found in 12 of 20, average 2.76, highest 14 ppb (2008-2012)
• Perchlorate in Cake, white w/ icing (formerly yellow cake): found in 12 of 20, 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)

SUGAR, ENRICHED FLOUR (WHEAT FLOUR, MALTED BARLEY FLOUR, NIACIN, FERROUS SULFATE OR REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID), WATER, PALM OIL, DRIED COCONUT FLAKE, CONTAINS 2% OR LESS: SOYBEAN OIL, GLYCERIN, DEGERMED CORN FLAKE, NONFAT DRY MILK, DEFATTED SOY FLOUR, HONEY, MODIFIED FOOD STARCH, SODIUM ACID PYROPHOSPHATE, BAKING SODA, EGG YOLK, PRESERVATIVE (SODIUM PROPIONATE, SORBIC ACID, POTASSIUM SORBATE, NATAMYCIN), SODIUM ALUMINUM PHOSPHATE, SALT, DEXTROSE, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, MONO AND DIGLYCERIDES, DEXTRIN, SOY LECITHIN, CITRIC ACID, ENZYMES, GUAR GUM, CELLULOSE GUM, COLOR (ANNATTO, TURMERIC), AGAR, KARAYA GUM.

From USDA FoodData Central, label dated 2021-10-28. Labels change; check the package.

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