Hostess Iced Devil's Food Cake With Creamy Filling, Iced Devil's
Hostess Brands, LLC · Cakes, Cupcakes, Snack Cakes · barcode 00888109110581
What stands out
- Recall
1 FDA recall names this barcode (2016, closed): undeclared peanut. Details
- Lab testsNo lab has published results for this exact product.
- Recalls1 FDA recall names this barcode (2016, closed). Details
- Additives1 ingredient has a label or school-food rule in some states. Which
- TypicalFDA's tests of cakes, cupcakes, snack cakes show what's typical. See levels
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: Iced Devil's Food cake with creamy filling, packaged as Hostess Zingers in 10-ct multi-packs of individual cakes, net wt. 12.70oz (360 g), UPC 888109110581; 6-ct. single serving fun size snack packs, individual pack net wt. 2.55 oz (72 g), UPC 888109010027;with the responsible firm name on the label is Hostess Brands LLC, Kansas City, MO 64141; and Dolly Zingers in 6-ct. single serving packs, 3 cakes per pack net wt. 3.81 oz. (108g), the responsible name on the label is Hostess Brands, LLC, Kansas City, MO 64141 Recall F-2115-2016 details
Additives with restrictions somewhere
From the ingredient list on file (label data dated 2022-06-21). Recipes change, so check the package you have.
Bleached flour
- US (FDA): Allowed FDA allows bleached flour. Source
- 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
- 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
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 (2 cakes, 72 g, from the label):19% of a toddler's daily limit5% 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 (2 cakes, 72 g, from the label):5% of a toddler's daily limit1% 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 (2 cakes, 72 g, from the label):2% 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)
SUGAR, WATER, ENRICHED FLOUR (BLEACHED WHEAT FLOUR, MALTED BARLEY FLOUR, NIACIN, FERROUS SULFATE OR REDUCED IRON, THIAMIN MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID, PALM OIL, CORN SYRUP, HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP, TALLOW, COCOA PROCESSED WITH ALKALI, CONTAINS 2% OR LESS: GLYCERIN, SOYBEAN OIL, MODIFIED CORN STARCH, COCOA, WHEY, EGG WHITE, EGG, BAKING SODA, CORNSTARCH, MONO AND DIGLYCERIDES, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, HYDROGENATED TALLOW, SALT, SORBIC ACID (TO RETAIN FRESHNESS), DEXTROSE, DEFATTED SOY FLOUR, COTTONSEED OIL, CELLULOSE GUM, SODIUM ALUMINUM PHOSPHATE, CALCIUM CASEINATE, SODIUM CASEINATE, SODIUM ACID PYROPHOSPHATE, SOY PROTEIN ISOLATE, MONOCALCIUM PHOSPHATE, AGAR, GUAR GUM, FUMARIC ACID, POLYSORBATE 60, ENZYMES, SOY LECITHIN.
From USDA FoodData Central, label dated 2022-06-21. Labels change; check the package.